I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that? — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
