Able Quote by Alger Hiss

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the…

— Umberto Eco

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

— Patricia Wentworth

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

— William Trevor

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according…

— Victor Davis Hanson

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour…

— Adam Weishaupt

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have…

— Rand Beers

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

— Man Ray

Writing is investigation.

— Naomi Alderman

“I accuse the three experts in handwriting, Sieurs Belhomme. Varinard and Couard, of having made lying and fraudulent reports, unless a medical inquiry should…

— Émile Zola

“In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.”

— Evan Angler

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti