41 Quotes by Asne Seierstad

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.