Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

My parents didn't have any money.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.