Barb Ward

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett