Author: Katherine Boo

Quotes

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

- Katherine Boo

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

- Katherine Boo

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

- Katherine Boo

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

- Katherine Boo

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

- Katherine Boo

Similar Authors: