Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradleywas an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While some critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse & rape by two of her children, Mark & Moira Greyland, among many others. Zimmer Bradley's first child, David R...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 June 1930
CountryUnited States of America
Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...
There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. 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.
I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
All gods are one god.
Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.
Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
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.
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.