They Didn't Say That. Quotations from Celebrities: Truth and Fiction

The author of the book, Garson O'Toole, is a journalist and the creator of the popular website Quote Investigator, which thousands of people around the world turn to for reference and help. The main question is as follows: do the... outstanding people whose quotes are so widely circulated in both print media and the internet actually own these sayings? And the answer is often negative. Garson O'Toole analyzes common quotes attributed to celebrities - from Abraham Lincoln to Anton Chekhov, from Aristotle to Woody Allen. He attempts to trace their origins and understand the confusion, as well as the reasons behind the emergence of false quotes and aphorisms. He refers to them as "mechanisms of errors" and explains in detail where, when, and why the misunderstanding arose.