English - Journalist | 1957 -
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.
Fiona Barton
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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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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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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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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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It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.
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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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Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.
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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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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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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.
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Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.
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