Latest Asne Seierstad Quotes from Interviews

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Growing Up, Vacuums, Grows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Eye, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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