Quote Investigator

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'''Quote Investigator''' ('''QI''') is an American blog written by Gregory F. Sullivan under the [[pseudonym]] of Garson O'Toole (which he apparently prefers to be cited under for his quotation work).<ref>Niraj Chokshi (April 26, 2017). [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/famous-misquotations.html "That Wasn't Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born"]. ''The New York Times''. [https://archive.ph/vwVVv (Archived)].</ref><ref>Lucia Geng (June 22, 2018). [https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/22/ivanka-trump/no-evidence-link-ivanka-trump-quote-chinese-prover/ "Ivanka Trump's Chinese proverb ahead of Singapore summit doesn't check out"]. ''Politifact''.</ref> O'Toole has also written ''Hemingway Didn't Say That'', a book examining famous misquotations; it is based on work published at Quote Investigator.<ref>McKenzie Sadeghi (July 12, 2021). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/12/fact-check-quote-truth-misattributed-carl-sagan/7925859002/ "Fact check: Conflicting reports surrounding purported Carl Sagan quote"]. ''USA Today''.</ref><ref>(April 26, 2017). [https://www.pw.org/content/grantas_best_young_american_novelists_the_global_novel_and_more "Granta's Best Young American Novelists, the Global Novel, and More"]. ''Poets & Writers''.</ref><ref name="CheadleViceInterview"/> He is also a major contributor to ''The Yale Book of Quotations''.<ref>Susan Gonzalez (August 18, 2021). [https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/18/you-can-quote-us-new-yale-book-quotations-its-way "You can quote us: The New Yale Book of Quotations is on its way"]. ''YaleNews''.</ref>

As his blog's name suggests, he uses it to document his investigations into the origins of various quotations.<ref>Sharon Rickson (November 22, 2013). [https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/11/22/how-to-research-quotations "How to Research a Quotation"]. ''New York Public Library''.</ref> QI contains over 1,300 such entries.<ref>[https://guides.loc.gov/quotations/experts "Quotation Experts"]. ''Library of Congress''.</ref> It can often be a useful source when examining or citing popular quotes in general that could be contentious, or even the true source of misattributed, banal truisms; though as we all know, the Internet [[Mark Twain|never]] [[Voltaire|misquotes]] [[Albert Einstein|anyone]].{{nofact}} Popular quote-aggregator sites like Goodreads or Brainyquote would never!<ref name="CheadleViceInterview">Harry Cheadle (April 3, 2017). [https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp34g8/all-your-favorite-famous-quotations-are-fake "All Your Favorite Famous Quotations Are Fake"]. ''VICE News''.</ref><ref>Lev Raphael (January 22, 2017). [https://web.archive.org/web/20230408122242/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/does-goodreads-care-more_b_14316050 "Why Does Goodreads Tout Fake Quotes?"]. ''HuffPost''.</ref><ref>Rebecca Seales (November 13, 2017). [https://www.bbc.com/news/41913640 "Let's save Maya Angelou from fake quotes"]. ''BBC News''.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Snopes]]
* [[:Category:Frequently misquoted people]]

==External links==
*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/ Quote Investigator]
*[https://quoteinvestigator.medium.com/ Quote Investigator on ''Medium'']
*[https://www.proquest.com/openview/7e25876a6570b171eca070d528a5987b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=296199 QI reviewed in ''The School Librarian'']

==References==
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