Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.'… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“I had a plan of action that I was going to run by Will. He could run it up the flagpole, but… — kimber nilsson Copy Share Image
Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like… — Bill Mallonee Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish,… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“I've seen so much and lived it all. I wanted to bite the earth and taste it. It is both bitter and… — Julie McSorley Marcus McSorley Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that although they have a respectable sales pitch, this business of a priest having the power to let… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you have power, that's your confessional booth - you can go in there and confess and be cleaned of all sins.… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
