What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- She describes truth as difficult to capture but attempts to tell it in her books.
- In plain terms
- Truth is hard to pin down, but I try to write it.
- What can you take from it?
- Acknowledge the difficulty of conveying truth accurately.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can language hold truth?
- How do you know what is true?
Another view
Truth can sometimes be straightforward.
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