The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“When I wear my confessional glove it’s super tempting to give myself a velvet handjob.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?" — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When she stepped into that confessional and touched herself right in front of me, she opened a door neither of us can… — Clarissa Wild Copy Share Image
A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon 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
“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
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
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 think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire. He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn’t… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If you'd told me even a year before...that I'd wind up whispering my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“That pew became a confessional. There, with a fully clothed, fully present Kyle, he left his plans for lifelong commitment to only… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. This may have nothing… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She [Mary Maclane] is almost always referred to as “confessional.” She has been referred to, several times, as the first blogger. Whereas… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Mike Romano slipped into the confessional. The screen behind the lattice grill slid open. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “For… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it. — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
“Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.” — Elizabeth Kelly Copy Share Image
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
“Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what… — Patrick McCabe Copy Share Image