I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

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 I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

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

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.

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