Been Quote by Edmund White

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

— Lucy Poate Stebbins

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

— Gavin Esler

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read…

— Edmund White

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

— D. H. Lawrence

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

— John Steinbeck

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by…

— Simone Weil

I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some…

— Richard Eyre

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth

“Idly, I flipped through the ledger's pages, for I cannot resist a book set before me no matter its kind. Writing draws my eye;…

— Kate Elliot

“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.”

— Jane Austen

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.

— William Mulock

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and…

— Cynthia Ozick

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the…

— Josef Skvorecky

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

— John Amos Comenius

The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested,…

— Ezra Hall Gillett