41 Quotes by Asne Seierstad

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.