53 Quotes by Kate Adie

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.