Denial Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“the only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.…

— Sarah Manguso

“Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction…

— Stella Payton

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

“Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as…

— Caroline Kettlewell

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Every word you said was a lie.every word I said was a mistake.

— Bakare

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

— Anonymous

“In many deceits the victim overlooks the liar’s mistakes, giving ambiguous behavior the best reading, collusively helping to maintain the lie, to avoid the…

— Paul Ekman

“That is a common mistake. The truth does not depend on what you read.”

— Zadie Smith

A mistake is an accident. Cheating and lying are not mistakes. They are intentional choices. Stop hiding behind the words mistake and sorry and…

— Anonymous