Appreciate Quote by Tim Parks

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you…

— Gore Vidal

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

— Gore Vidal

“Reading without suspicion is more dangerous than blogging without authority.”

— Gordon Highland

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs…

— John Updike

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending…

— William Shakespeare

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

— David Coleman

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The dogma of suspicion must be critiqued.”

— Anonymous

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky