Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. — Roy Blount, Jr Cinema Copy Share Image
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. — Roy Blount, Jr Author Copy Share Image
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little… — Roy Blount, Jr Cape Copy Share Image
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Authors Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is. — Roy Blount, Jr Atlanta Copy Share Image
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr Clear Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Exercise Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Alcoholism Copy Share Image
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my… — Roy Blount, Jr Bones Copy Share Image
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been… — Roy Blount, Jr Animal Copy Share Image
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong… — Roy Blount, Jr Accents Copy Share Image
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times. — Roy Blount, Jr Extraordinary Copy Share Image
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say… — Roy Blount, Jr I can Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing… — Roy Blount, Jr Bird Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Abstract Copy Share Image
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich… — Roy Blount, Jr Accidents 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.… — Roy Blount, Jr Adjustment Copy Share Image
It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't… — Roy Blount, Jr Barrels Copy Share Image
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then… — Roy Blount, Jr Dating Copy Share Image
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble… — Roy Blount, Jr Hops 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… — Roy Blount, Jr Ancestor Copy Share Image
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by… — Roy Blount, Jr College Copy Share Image
I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red… — Roy Blount, Jr Accusation Copy Share Image
Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine… — Roy Blount, Jr Able Copy Share Image
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have… — Roy Blount, Jr Bark Copy Share Image
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. — Roy Blount, Jr Book Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Composition Copy Share Image
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round. — Roy Blount, Jr Cooking Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Books Copy Share Image
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South. — Roy Blount, Jr Direction Copy Share Image
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity. — Roy Blount, Jr Activity Copy Share Image
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. — Roy Blount, Jr Belief Copy Share Image
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount, Jr Books Copy Share Image
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount, Jr American english Copy Share Image
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. — Roy Blount, Jr Excited Copy Share Image
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr Grind Copy Share Image
