But, our perception is slightly different on the person than what they perceive of themselves. Those are good questions that need some good ideas to answer them. Fabrication is itself, of course, an ordering or rearrangement of selected materials from the actual world. But fiction s resemblance to, say, botany stops here. Every fiction writer knows that he selects materials and fabricates unsystematically, according to love, whim, and convenience.
Facts are never as important to the pilgrimage of faith as is truth.
Truth, especially truth about who God is and who we are, is always bigger than human minds can comprehend or human language can convey. Faith has always relied upon stories to tell the truth about God and about all of creation. Stories are not only windows through which we come to see truth, stories are also wells. Stories, character, plot, setting all illuminate truth, even though they are fictional. They come from the author's mind, real and believable, that he almost believes that is how it happened.