Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr Grind Copy Share Image
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. — Roy Blount, Jr Cinema 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
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
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
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
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. — Roy Blount, Jr Authors 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
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South. — Roy Blount, Jr South 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
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. — Roy Blount, Jr Excited 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
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
Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a… — Roy Blount, Jr I can 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 Book 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
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
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
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through… — Roy Blount, Jr Able 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
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr Arbitrary 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
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity. — Roy Blount, Jr Activity Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is. — Roy Blount, Jr Atlanta Copy Share Image
