Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.