Confess Quote by Lucy Poate Stebbins Download Open image “The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.” — Lucy Poate Stebbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confess Confess Lies Desire Desire Confess Fiction Fiction writing Lying Roots Writer Writing
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“I wanted to come clean many times. I wanted to admit my jealousy, to confess my sarcasm and endless anger, to put all my… — Invisible Sam Copy Share Image
“Lord, we confess our numerous faults, How great our guilt has been! Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, And all our lives were… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Tell me, if I confess my feelings to you, will you say you feel the same? Or am I going to have to cringe… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“We rarely confide in those who are better than we. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.” — Stacy Buck Copy Share Image
Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
