"I do not think of literature as something……" — Per Petterson

More Confessional Quotes

This quote is filed under Confessional Quotes, one of 41 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have… — John Irving
• ['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that… — James Taylor
• For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need… — Taylor Swift
• I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's… — Taylor Swift
• We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. — Big Boi
• Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault
• I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the… — Pope Francis
• A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is… — Nelson Algren
• We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or… — Gerhard
• Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. — Mark Buchanan
• The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional. — Pope Benedict XVI
• My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan

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