Asne Seierstad's Quotes
Born: 1970-02-10
Profession: Journalist
Nation: Norwegian
Biography of Asne Seierstad
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.
Tags: Means, Risk, SomeoneI 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.
Tags: Book, Money, WritingIf I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
Tags: Lose, Society, WritingIf my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
Tags: Difficult, Impossible, NameIf we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
Tags: Afghan, Family, UnderstandThere is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
Tags: Book, Change, WriteWhen I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
Tags: Body, Fear, PutAs 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.
Tags: Able, War, WomanThe 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.
Tags: Book, Family, LifeThe family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
Tags: Family, Single, Society