Minnie Maddern Fiske

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.