41 Quotes by Asne Seierstad

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.

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

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

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

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 was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I’m going to be okay.

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

I’m trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.