Achieve Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

— Peter Guber

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

— John le Carre

“Authenticity is boring, credibility is important”

— Raymond Chandler

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

— Primo Levi

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer…

— Ernest Hemingway

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

— Charlie Brooker

“Why would anyone who is deeply satisfied with reality, with real life as it is lived, dedicate himself to something as insubstantial and fanciful…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“Novelist Jonathan Franzen gets it right when he says inauthentic people are obsessed with authenticity”

— Reid Hoffman

“In our desire to be real we start thinking that authenticity is another word for spontaneity, as if everything we say at the spur…

— Mark Galli

“Authenticity is an “owning” of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable.”

— Mary Pipher