Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. — Roy Blount, Jr Book 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… — Roy Blount, Jr College Copy Share Image
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr Conceived Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Affair Copy Share Image
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book,… — Roy Blount, Jr Baseball 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… — Roy Blount, Jr Believe Copy Share Image
People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be… — Roy Blount, Jr Done 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
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it.… — Roy Blount, Jr Bowls 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
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
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
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to… — Roy Blount, Jr Accents Copy Share Image
I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want… — Roy Blount, Jr Lasts 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… — Roy Blount, Jr Doctors 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
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
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
Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it. — Roy Blount, Jr Ifs Copy Share Image
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. — Roy Blount, Jr Cards Copy Share Image
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Anchors 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
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now… — Roy Blount, Jr Advice 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
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
