Behinds Quote by Louis Begley

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you…

— Gina Barreca

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page…

— Connie Nielsen

Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and…

— Regina Spektor

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

— Anton Chekhov

“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even…

— Aidan Chambers

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

— Robert A. Heinlein

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

— Michael Pollan

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

— Kevin Kwan

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

ONLINE CONFESSIONS ..... I'm doing an article about that in class

— Anonymous