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.

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

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

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

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 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.