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My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.

I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.