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.

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

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

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

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.

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