Working Class Writer Quotes

“The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.

Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody”
― Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

“Superficial, ha! With me, what you see is what you get?’

Bill, looked up from his drink, ‘Now that is deep!”
― Jim Lowe, New Reform

“Old men scribble combinations of numbers onto betting slips like mathematical equations, while others pass by, whispering the names of horses under their breaths like prayers.”
― Jon Franklin, Shouting The Odds: A Horse Racing Drama of Risk and Escape