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Fiona Barton
English
Journalist
Born:
1957
First
Journalist
Me
People
Think
You
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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.
Fiona Barton
Woman
Emotions
Will
Motherhood
Own
Pain
Tell
Responsibilities
She
Any
Children
Story
Ask
Us
Unique
Each
Her
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.
Fiona Barton
You
Experience
Wonderful
Reading
Think
Out
Got
Wonderful Experience
Goes
Story
Then
Figured
Suddenly
Things
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.
Fiona Barton
Sad
Truth
Construction
Sad Truth
Seventies
Out
Jobs
Favour
Fell
Industries
Shed
Industry
Eighties
Decline
Manufacturing
Britain
Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.
Fiona Barton
Health
Mental Health
Mental
Something
Very
Interested
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.
Fiona Barton
Food
Secret
Our
Everything
Destroy
Embarrassing
Out
Would
Would-Be
Lies
Threaten
Some
Insignificant
Only
Drink
Most
Protective
May
Being
Us
Novelist
Found
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!
Fiona Barton
Success
Experience
Book
Writing
Word
First
Say
Out
Fingernails
Wrenching
Felt
Were
Times
Child
Expectations
Confess
Different
Created
Body
Meant
Enjoyed
Second
Widow
When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.
Fiona Barton
You
People
Events
Think
Extraordinary
About
Thrillers
Involve
Often
Psychological
Happening
Ordinary
Ordinary People
I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
Fiona Barton
Journalist
Despite
Complexity
Write
Because
Always
Done
Different
Perspectives
Different Perspectives
Chose
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.
Fiona Barton
You
Book
Thought
Once
Details
About
Write
Over
Involved
Readers
Hand
Questions
Ask
Then
Even
It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.
Fiona Barton
Me
Amazing
Journalists
Esteem
Low
Held
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.
Fiona Barton
You
Writing
Invent
Beginning
Relying
Facts
Learn
Heard
Very
Stop
Fiction
Hard
Start
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.
Fiona Barton
People
Think
Society
Criminals
Some
Journalists
Democratic
Democratic Society
Lot
Essential
Us
Who
Helped
Media
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
You
People
Words
Journalist
Else
Someone
Read
Lots
Quoting
Your
Regularly
Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.
Fiona Barton
Writing
Words
First
About
Putting
Ideas
Just
Page
Cook
For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.
Fiona Barton
Me
Secret
Always
Been
Irresistible
Lure
As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.
Fiona Barton
Language
Journalist
Others
Picking
Individuals
Make
Verbal
Been
Up
Interesting
Us
Body
Body Language
Professional
Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.
Fiona Barton
Good
Good Job
Job
Difficult
Circumstances
Bad
Feel
Journalists
Yes
Very
Often
Apples
Difficult Circumstances
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