Authenticity Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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

— Zeenat Aman

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress…

— Homer Hickam

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

— Anonymous

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end…

— Alberto Moravia

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma