American author (1930-1999)
If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
Ghostlight
I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies--but I don't use that kind of language in public.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Renunciates of Darkover
There is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God's goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Mists of Avalon
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.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Mists of Avalon
Customs have no reason; they simply are.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Firebrand
If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Door Through Space
I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Mists of Avalon
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Mists of Avalon
What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone?
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Prisoner in the Oak
You have the Barbarian viewpoint, I see. Radio, for instance. We use it for emergency needs. The Barbarians used to listen to keep from doing things--I know, they even had radio with pictures, and used to sit and listen and look at other people doing things instead of doing them themselves.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
"The Climbing Wave", Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1955
Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
The King Stag