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It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.