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

— Umberto Eco

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

— Alger Hiss

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

— Henry Rollins

The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.

— Edward M. Lerner

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

— Alexander Chee

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

— Savion Glover

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

— Susan Holloway Scott

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

— Simon Greenleaf

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

— Philippa Gregory