Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

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.

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

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

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

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.

I didn't have money growing up.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a public-school teacher's salary of $22,000 a year.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.