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" 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. "
Fiona Barton
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You
People
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" When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job. "
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" Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first. "
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" Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children. "
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" I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps. "
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" Mental health is something that I'm very interested in. "
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Health
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" The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye. "
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Hidden
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" I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist. "
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Done
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" 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. "
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" It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem. "
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Held
Low
" 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. "
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" The emotions, responsibilities - and the pain - of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will have her own story to tell. "
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" When I first became a journalist, people said, 'Oh, that must be interesting.' They saw it as slightly glamorous, slightly edgy. They wanted to know more. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or an unanswered question you spot in someone else's article. "
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" When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and what you've heard. "
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