Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices. ”

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support. ”

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. ”

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could. ”

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel. ”

My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool. ”

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills. ”

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops. ”

I grew up in a family that was working-class, which taught me to be careful with money. ”

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer. ”