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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.