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 Read Quote
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. Fiona Barton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
