I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and… — 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
