[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

It was written without fear and without research.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.