Asne Seierstad Quotes

• We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

  Asne Seierstad

  Growing Up, Vacuums, Grows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

  Asne Seierstad

  Men, Violence, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Way

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Four, Solve

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Afghanistan, Ifs, Afghan

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  Believe, News Stories, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Important

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  Children, War, Thinking

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Believe, Feelings, Innocent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Reality, Ifs

  Asne Seierstad (2009). “A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Glasses, Hands

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  Mean, Names, Risk

  "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Believe, Lasts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Iraq, Body, Freezer

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Important, Culture, Fundamentals

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview With Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• 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.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Book, Writing

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Real, Objectivity, Opinion

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Eye, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Running, War, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Thinking, Time To Leave

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Writing, Outsiders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Children, War, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Different

  "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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• If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

  Asne Seierstad

  Lying, Years, People

  "A Hundred & One Days: An Interview with Asne Seierstad". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

  Asne Seierstad

  Political, Becoming, Psychological

  Source: www.pbs.org

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