Sentence examples for confessional writers from inspiring English sources

She said: "Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick.

"Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick," she once said.

For confessional writers, it is a safe forum for candid self-expression and a magic cloak that makes it easy to disappear into the crowd.

Lowell's new work influenced nearly all American poets but especially a group of "confessional" writers, including Anne Sexton in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) and All My Pretty Ones (1962) and Sylvia Plath in the posthumously published Ariel (1965).

Her classes include college writing and liberal arts seminars on female confessional writers.

The impulse to contact a confessional writer – whose writing has already revealed something private – is something else.

"She's well known as a highly confessional writer, who writes very personally and intimately about her family situation," he said.

It has always been tempting to think of Philip Roth as a confessional writer – as honest to his reader as Alexander Portnoy on the psychiatrist's couch: "You want to hear everything?

Singer-songwriters everywhere should quake in their boots: here's a hugely confessional writer at the top of her game who tackles affairs, cancer, suicide, religion and war, not only with a refreshing lack of cliche but with incredible strength.

"I guess I belong to the European tradition of the writer who has to be involved with reality, rather than contemplating his navel and just being a confessional writer over and over and over again," he said in an interview with Newsday in 1980.

When I finally, covertly, admitted on Facebook that he had passed away several weeks after the event one of the only things, as a confessional writer, that I have been mainly private about the vultures swooped and settled, cawing with mock sympathy and very open arms.