“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books -… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.” — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share
“The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' -- Roy Blount Jr.” — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share
“So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“Eaters of Wonder Bread Must be underbred. So little to eat. Where's the wheat?” — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
