Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

I like men who are more in their heads.

I am not an egghead in the least.

I'm an intellectual.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I'm a cerebral guy, man.

I think I'm a very cerebral player.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

I'm no genius.

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

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

I never said I was a genius.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

It's not that I'm so smart.

People think I'm smarter than I am.

I’m not, like, that smart.

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.