“A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.” WorldWayDealsThis WorldStrikesInevitable Author:Katherine Boo
“In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.” WorldKindImportantUnderstandingTerrible Author:Katherine Boo
“I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.” WorldI Love Him Book:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingReaderCitizensAutobiography Author:Katherine Boo
“My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingLittlesHappensJobsPolicyHappeningsLaysJournalismPrescriptions Author:Katherine Boo
