The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional. — Lena Dunham 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
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon 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
“Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.” — Elizabeth Kelly 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
"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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“When I wear my confessional glove it’s super tempting to give myself a velvet handjob.” — Jarod Kintz 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
“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 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
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
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
![“She [Mary Maclane] is almost always referred to as “confessional.” She has been referred to, several times, as the first blogger. Whereas her writing does not confess much - it is much more spiritual memoir than anything, or perhaps something akin to a mystic’s courtly love, directed at the self…” quote by Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/kate-zambreno-12400_confessional_she-mary-maclane-is-almost-always-referr_1118592.jpg)
