Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.

Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

Mom was always worrying about the rent.

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.