Writing is an intimate transaction between two people…

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

Beauty is very intimate.

— Emily Weiss

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself…

— Tom Brown, Jr

Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a…

— Atoosa Rubenstein

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish,…

— Horatius Bonar

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and…

— John Kao

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate…

— Benjamin Tucker

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…

— George Eliot

When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of people in…

— Kelly Rowan

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like…

— Angel Olsen

Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to…

— Suze Orman