Appreciation Quote by Barack Obama

I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've…

— David Salle

I don't hold a lot to the vest. I'm a bit of an open book, as anyone who knows me would contest. Confess? Attest?…

— Katy Tur

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

— Lucy Poate Stebbins

“ I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is…

— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

— William Shakespeare

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is…

— Kiese Laymon

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with…

— Fernando Pessoa

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has…

— Michiko Kakutani

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

— Norman Lock

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

— Mahatma Gandhi