Credible Quote by John le Carre

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

— Bryce Courtenay

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

— Dan Poynter

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about…

— Clark Zlotchew

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Reid Hoffman

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

— Jeanne Moreau

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

— Jerry B. Jenkins