Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.