Corey Harrison Quotes

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

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.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

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

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

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

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

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

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

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

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

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

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.