Authenticity Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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

— Zeenat Aman

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

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

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

— Clarence Darrow

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in…

— William Trevor

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

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

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

— Naseeruddin Shah