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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.