Amity Shlaes Quotes

I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

I am not that smart.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

I don't call myself a writer.

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

I am not a writer.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

I hate to be smart.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.