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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

Topics: Else Journalist Lots People Read Regularly Someone Words You Your

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Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: About Cook First Ideas Just Page Putting Words Writing

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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.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: About Books Characters Create Discovered Fell Flat Home Humour Immerse Lake Leaving Leaving Home Love Married Midwestern Myself Over Place Starting Still Tap Them Those Warmth Wonderful World I Love I Can

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I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: Clever Deep Driven Evil Like Pure Villains

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For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.

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Topics: Always Been Irresistible Lure Me Secret

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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.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: About Became Fascination Hidden Job Journalism Led Lives Me People Seeking Suspect Truth Uncover

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We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don't want anyone else to know, things we've done that would change the way people feel about us, or parts of our lives that we would rather forget.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: About Anyone Anyone Else Change Done Else Feel Forget Know Like Lives May Otherwise Our Our Lives Parts People Pretend Rather Things Thoughts Us Want Way Would

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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.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: Accidental Forensic Fundamental Historic Insights Love Me Professional Psychological Reader Secret Sheer Since Skills Something Toward Truth Various Wrongs Young I Love

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The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: Fascinated First Psychological Readers Secrets Since Small Small Towns Thriller Towns Writers

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Donna Tartt is a genius.

~Fiona Barton

Topics: Genius

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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