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I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I really liked the Seattle movement.

I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.