Hanging out Quote by Alexander Chee

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

— Jen Sincero

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely;…

— Maya Angelou

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system.…

— Thomas Jefferson

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

— Ashton Kutcher

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

— Santiago Durango

If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all my arguments…

— Caitlin Moran

“Americans wanted cheap stuff—and the harder they shopped for the cheapest stuff, the more they helped drive down the wages of people who made…

— Brian Alexander

We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don't leave with crippling debt that…

— Gretchen Whitmer

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

— E. F. Schumacher