48 Quotes by Fiona Barton

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.

It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.

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.

Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.

The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.

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.

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.

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.

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