Poverty Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs Download Open image “I write to escape ... to escape poverty.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poverty Writing
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying.… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
