My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.