Asne Seierstad Quotes

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Growing Up, Vacuums, Grows

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

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  Men, Violence, Accepting

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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

  Libro, Escritura, Camino

  "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

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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.

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  Believe, News Stories, Trying

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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

  Libro, Escribir, Importante

  "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.

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  Believe, Feelings, Innocent

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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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• 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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• Como era la única mujer, pude sentarme con los oficiales delante, con un vaso de vodka en una mano y un pepino en la otra. Así fui a mi primera guerra.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Glasses, Hands

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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.

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  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

  Guerra, Libro, Escritura

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Running, War, Risk

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• Creo que cuando empiezas a tener miedo, es hora de irse.

  Asne Seierstad

  Thinking, Time To Leave

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

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• If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

  Asne Seierstad

  Names, Impossible, Difficult

  "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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• No hay nada que cambiaría; para cambiarlo tendría que haber escrito un libro totalmente distinto.

  Asne Seierstad

  Libro, Escritura, Diferente

  "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

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Writing, Outsiders

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

  Asne Seierstad

  Country, Eye, Trying

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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

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