Authenticity Quote by Dorothea Benton Frank

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised…

— Harper Lee

It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with…

— Joshilyn Jackson

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience…

— Patricia Hampl

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

— Bryce Courtenay

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

“When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the…

— Nina Jean Slack

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian