yarn spinner

Carewe projected a public image that drove business, according to Hearne, and he often enlisted short story writer and pal Jim Tully to serve as a press agent, biographer and official yarn spinner for his directorial projects.

Like his characters, Wilson is a first-rate yarn spinner.

“My maternal grandmother Page, who spent her entire life in South Texas, was a great yarn spinner. She was particularly good with biblical stories. And my father, Irvin Rather, he didn’t tell stories often, but when he told them he was excellent at creating word pictures.”

He told me that his father found work as a woollen yarn spinner at the Thomas Carr mill.

True, Conrad’s narrator, a yarn spinner not an activist, does little more than bear witness, but he sees clearly.