Quotes by Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

It’s important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

Faces

Important

Islam

My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.

Interesting

People

September 11

News isn’t designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

Daily Life

News

Nuance

One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, “Aren’t you worried? They’ve been posted on Facebook and such.” And he said, “Just the opposite. This is a folk form; they survive and thrive as people share them.”

Incredibles

Mind

People

Poetry allows me to write about what I don’t know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

Demand

Levels

Writing

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

Radio

Real

Would Be

Poetry isn’t as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn’t feel relevant.

Making Time

People

World

Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it’s easy to say, “Well, they’re not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?” But that’s a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

Easy

Plight

Worry

Speculation is a fool’s game, but I’ve seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

Country

Games

Political

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

Afghanistan

Dark

Decision

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Enough

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Iraq

Islam

Islamic

Jesus

Journalism

Kind

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Levels

Longing

Making Time

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News

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People

Play

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Quotes by Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

It’s important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

News isn’t designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

Poetry allows me to write about what I don’t know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

Poetry isn’t as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn’t feel relevant.

Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it’s easy to say, “Well, they’re not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?” But that’s a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

Speculation is a fool’s game, but I’ve seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

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