Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Asne Seierstad

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.

Norwegian - Journalist | Born: February 10, 1970

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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'.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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