Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish author Theresa Breslin.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Theresa Breslin is a Scottish author. Winner of many literary awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal, Theresa Breslin is the popular, critically acclaimed author of over 50 titles covering every age range, whose books have been adapted for television, stage and radio, and are translated world-wide. Her work includes folk tales, humorous books, fantasy and time slip adventures, historical novels, modern issues, texts suitable for challenged and EAL readers, short stories, poetry and plays. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. In March 2019 Theresa was awarded Scottish Book Trust's Outstanding Achievement Award.
In June 2019 Theresa received an O.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
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.
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.