Authenticity Quote by Reid Hoffman

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

— John le Carre

“Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated…

— James Ticknor

“Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands…

— Haruki Murakami

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

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

“Authenticity is boring, credibility is important”

— Raymond Chandler

“Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life.”

— Euginia Herlihy

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

— Stephen Sondheim

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

— Tom Shadyac

“Often misconstrued, authenticity is not about being an open book, revealing every detail of yourself without rhyme or reason. It is simply the act…

— Scott Edmund Miller

“Authenticity lies at the heart of decency.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power