Writer Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr

10 Writer quotes by Roy Blount, Jr

Roy Blount, Jr.’s witty voice shines in these ten concise statements. He offers a light‑hearted look at the writer’s routine, the importance of humor, and the occasional absurdity of the creative process.

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I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

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I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe…

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There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements…

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I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the…

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Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled.…

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I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

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Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

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Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

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I do some eccentric dancing.

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