Accounts Quote by Ernest Hemingway

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

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

— Bryce Courtenay

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

— Edward Abbey

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

— Tim O'Brien

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell