“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. ...” — Sarah Bernhardt Quote

“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”

“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”

“Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.”

“If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.”

“I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.”

“In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.”