Fiona Barton Quotes

A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for democratic society.
As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.
As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.
As a reporter, I spent a great deal of time in court. During brief breaks in testimony, I would often look at the spouse, usually the wife, of the accused. I began to wonder how listening to the details of a crime purportedly committed by your spouse would affect that person's view of her husband.
Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.
Donna Tartt is a genius.
For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.
Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the warmth, and the wonderful characters in The Sidetrack Tap. I discovered them when I was about 30, starting with 'Leaving Home' and 'We Are Still Married,' and fell in love with the place and those flat Midwestern vowels.
I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people who've been accused of things.
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.
I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.
It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.
It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.
It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.
It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.
Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.
Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.
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