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

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

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.

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

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.

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