Words matter. These are the best Fiona Barton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mental health is something that I’m very interested in.
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.
For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.
The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.
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.
The success of ‘The Widow’ meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a completely different writing experience. Not to say I haven’t enjoyed writing ‘The Child,’ but I confess there were times when I felt as if I was wrenching it out of my body with bloodied fingernails!
Donna Tartt is a genius.
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.
I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.
Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.
The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic skills, the psychological insights, and the sheer bloody-mindedness of various detectives – professional or accidental – inching toward the truth of a long-buried secret.
It’s amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.
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.