Books Quote by Michael Feinstein

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

— Bryce Courtenay

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Gail Caldwell

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm…

— Lisa Scottoline

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

— Robert Munsch

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the…

— James Gunn