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fictions can be true or false. True in the sense that they tell us something valid about the human condition, false in the sense that we can wilfully misread them. Religion is full of true fictions, stories that carry meanings we have to work for,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
A work of fiction is, in a sense, always “wrong.” It is a complicated organism. It is not, ever, an accurate or correct or true or 100 percent “defensible” representation of reality. It’s always somebody’s take on reality, full of inadvertent falseness (full of, that is, inadequate attempts to be truthful.)
A fable is generally a fiction, as has already been said. It is a singular paradox, however, that nothing is truer than a good fable. True to intuition, true to nature, true to fact. The great virtue of fables consists in this quality of truthfulness, and their enduring life and popularity are corroboration of