Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children. — Fiona Barton Children Copy Share Image
I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well. — Fiona Barton Books Copy Share Image
Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances. — Fiona Barton Bad Copy Share Image
When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a… — Fiona Barton Article Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all… — Fiona Barton Experience Copy Share Image
When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on… — Fiona Barton Beginning Copy Share Image
A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven't helped us. But the media is essential for… — Fiona Barton Journalism Copy Share Image
The emotions, responsibilities - and the pain - of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and… — Fiona Barton Children Copy Share Image
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… — Fiona Barton Journalism Copy Share Image
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But… — Fiona Barton Destroy Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good… — Fiona Barton Drama Copy Share Image
The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic… — Fiona Barton Books Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I love the deadpan humour, the… — Fiona Barton Books Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a… — Fiona Barton Body Copy Share Image
Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first. — Fiona Barton About Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem. — Fiona Barton Amazing Copy Share Image
Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York. — Fiona Barton Barbecue Copy Share Image
For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret. — Fiona Barton Always Copy Share Image
“The problem is that a secret takes on a life of its own over time.” — Fiona Barton Life Copy Share Image
The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps. — Fiona Barton Gaps Copy Share Image
“Sparkes plowed on. “And that’s just the university staff.” The joke fell to the ground, writhing. “Right,” the chief super said. “Okay,… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting… — Fiona Barton Body Copy Share Image
When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people. — Fiona Barton Events Copy Share Image
The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned. — Fiona Barton Books Copy Share Image
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist. — Fiona Barton Always Copy Share Image
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and… — Fiona Barton Books Copy Share Image
When I first became a journalist, people said, 'Oh, that must be interesting.' They saw it as slightly glamorous, slightly edgy. They… — Fiona Barton Edgy Copy Share Image
“Dangerous to think you know too much, sometimes, because who really knows someone else? You can scratch the skin, but you never… — Fiona Barton Dangerous Copy Share Image
“Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don't want anyone else to know, things we've done that… — Fiona Barton Change Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries… — Fiona Barton Construction Copy Share Image
“I realize that my memories...are like one of those home movies, where a jerky camera records slices of the action, then breaks… — Fiona Barton Cinema Copy Share Image
“People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't.… — Fiona Barton Child Copy Share Image
“People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. .But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
As a reporter, I spent a great deal of time in court. During brief breaks in testimony, I would often look at… — Fiona Barton Great Copy Share Image
“Kate wondered what an alien would make of the scene. Dozens of people sitting in isolation in front of computers, not speaking… — Fiona Barton Computers Copy Share Image
“People say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you’ve been through something terrible. My mum, Jude, used… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
