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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.