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Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.
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Mental Health
Mental
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I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.
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Clever
Driven
Pure
Villains
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Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.
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New York
Barbecue
Carolina
Dog
Hot Dog
North Carolina
North
York
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For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.
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Irresistible
Lure
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It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.
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Esteem
Held
Journalists
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I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.
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Unreliable
Narrator
Readers
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The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.
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Imagination
Gaps
Fill
Powerful Tool
Suggestion
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Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.
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Apples
Circumstances
Difficult Circumstances
Good Job
Good Difficult Bad
Good Bad Difficult
Journalists
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Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children.
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Agonizing
Choosing
Haunted
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The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.
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Fascinated
Psychological
Towns
Small Towns
Thriller
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When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.
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Extraordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Psychological
Thrillers
Happening
Involve
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I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.
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Complexity
Despite
Journalist
Chose
Different Perspectives
Perspectives
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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.
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Fascination
Seeking
Hidden
Suspect
Uncover
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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.
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Quoting
Regularly
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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.
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Criminals
Democratic
Democratic Society
Media
Essential
Helped
Journalists
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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.
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Heard
Beginning
Invent
Relying
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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.
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Wonderful Experience
Figured
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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.
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Body Language
Interesting
Journalist
Individuals
Picking
Verbal
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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.
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Edgy
Glamorous
Must People Know
People Know More
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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.
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Motherhood
Responsibilities
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I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people who've been accused of things.
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Accused
Crime
Members
People Things Think
Widow
Obviously
Suspect
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When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or an unanswered question you spot in someone else's article.
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Contact
Journalist
Unanswered
Article
Phone
Spot
Phone Call
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The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye.
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Eye
Filling
Gaps
Interpreting
Invites
Narrative
Powerful
Reader
Seeing
Sentences
Unsaid
Hidden
Powerful Tool
Silences
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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.
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Britain
Construction
Decline
Favour
Manufacturing
Sad Truth
Seventies
Eighties
Industries
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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.
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Anyone Else
Pretend
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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.
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Embarrassing
Insignificant
Protective
Destroy
Threaten
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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.
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Detectives
Historic
Psychological
Sheer
Love Truth Me
Accidental
Forensic
Fundamental
Insights
Wrongs
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As a reporter, I spent a great deal of time in court. During brief breaks in testimony, I would often look at the spouse, usually the wife, of the accused. I began to wonder how listening to the details of a crime purportedly committed by your spouse would affect that person's view of her husband.
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Accused
Committed
Court
Crime
Details
Husband
Spouse
Testimony
Wonder
Time Great Your
Time Great Wife
Affect
Began
Breaks
Brief
Reporter
Great Deal
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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!
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Enjoyed
Fingernails
Meant
Widow
Confess
Created
Wrenching
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Over the years, I've interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.
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Affected
Good Fortune
Guilty
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Periphery
Spotlight
Tragedy
Good Famous Always
Good Famous Me
Haunt
Stayed
Victims
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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.
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Humour
Leaving
Leaving Home
Vowels
Warmth
Love Home Myself
Tap
Flat
Immerse
Lake
Midwestern
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