Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.
Theresa Breslin
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In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
Theresa Breslin
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What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
