(…)we like to imagine fiction-making in procreative terms (the heroic novelist bringing forth something out of nothing), but really it is more of an abduction. Trickster has taken hold of something half-formed and now has to smuggle it across a boundary to the place where its value can be recognized. And then has to execute the same move in reverse, so that the longed-for resolution can become part of the real.

Daqui.