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

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

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

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

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.

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.