173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Even fiction – perhaps especially fiction – has more truth in it than the author knows.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

Look to the east,” she said, “for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east.

He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.

I am dedicated to the belief that it is God’s will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive in the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and Hell and damnation.

I wasn’t a child at 13, were you?

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all?