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A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover. ~ Bell Hooks
Confessional Writing quotes by Bell Hooks
One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing. ~ Kiese Laymon
Confessional Writing quotes by Kiese Laymon
We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership. ~ Ann Patchett
Confessional Writing quotes by Ann Patchett
If you see it in Strunk and White it's so. ~ Buffy Andrews
Confessional Writing quotes by Buffy Andrews
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. ~ H.P. Lovecraft
Confessional Writing quotes by H.P. Lovecraft
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving ... ~ Isabel Allende
Confessional Writing quotes by Isabel Allende
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. ~ Nick Cave
Confessional Writing quotes by Nick Cave
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book. ~ Ayn Rand
Confessional Writing quotes by Ayn Rand
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis'
by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love. ~ John Barth
Confessional Writing quotes by John Barth
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
Confessional Writing quotes by Ernest Hemingway,
A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. ~ A.D. Posey
Confessional Writing quotes by A.D. Posey
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it. ~ Patrick DeWitt
Confessional Writing quotes by Patrick DeWitt
However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words. ~ Alice Driver
Confessional Writing quotes by Alice Driver
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don't be a talker. ~ Po Bronson
Confessional Writing quotes by Po Bronson
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. ~ A. E. Hotchner
Confessional Writing quotes by A. E. Hotchner
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. ~ Ron Paul
Confessional Writing quotes by Ron Paul
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
Confessional Writing quotes by Hyman G. Rickover
I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights. ~ Ben Elton
Confessional Writing quotes by Ben Elton
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common. ~ Julius Lester
Confessional Writing quotes by Julius Lester
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet. ~ Taylor Swift
Confessional Writing quotes by Taylor Swift
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me. ~ Deborah Smith
Confessional Writing quotes by Deborah Smith
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds. ~ R.A. Lafferty
Confessional Writing quotes by R.A. Lafferty
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo. ~ Gavin Rossdale
Confessional Writing quotes by Gavin Rossdale
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. ~ Elissa Schappell
Confessional Writing quotes by Elissa Schappell
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
Confessional Writing quotes by Ernest Hemingway,
I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go ... ~ Carmen DeSousa
Confessional Writing quotes by Carmen DeSousa
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Confessional Writing quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much. The Hatter was the first to break the silence. 'What day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear. Alice considered a little, and then said 'The fourth.' 'Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. 'I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare. 'It was the best butter, ~ Lewis Carroll
Confessional Writing quotes by Lewis Carroll
And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words ~ Jojo Moyes
Confessional Writing quotes by Jojo Moyes
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. ~ Jose Saramago
Confessional Writing quotes by Jose Saramago
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too. ~ Amy Bloom
Confessional Writing quotes by Amy Bloom
Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force ~ Anne Lamott
Confessional Writing quotes by Anne Lamott
I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few. ~ Andrew Kendall
Confessional Writing quotes by Andrew Kendall
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Confessional Writing quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good. ~ Ray Bradbury
Confessional Writing quotes by Ray Bradbury
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. ~ Poppy Z. Brite
Confessional Writing quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. ~ Rita Dove
Confessional Writing quotes by Rita Dove
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. ~ Edward Hirsch
Confessional Writing quotes by Edward Hirsch
All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. ~ P.D. James
Confessional Writing quotes by P.D. James
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. ~ Anne Lamott
Confessional Writing quotes by Anne Lamott
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. ~ Nadine Gordimer
Confessional Writing quotes by Nadine Gordimer
I still write more songs about girls than anything else. ~ Steve Earle
Confessional Writing quotes by Steve Earle
I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. ~ Cypher Lx
Confessional Writing quotes by Cypher Lx
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots. ~ Jon Spaihts
Confessional Writing quotes by Jon Spaihts
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