Asne Seierstad Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Asne Seierstad:
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
Link:
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
Link:
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
Link:
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
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.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
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
Link:
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
~Asne Seierstad
Link:
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
Link:
Share:
Permalink:
Browse: