In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
The deepest shadow is cast by the strongest light is not just a metaphor; it is literal truth. In — Jane Meredith Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
“And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose.” — c.s. lewis Copy Share Image
“He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Everything Scripture teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we wobble to… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“It is true that this general truth was hidden from many by certain definite assertions. I can only call them, in simple… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image