Best Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
- Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. Anyone
- Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. Early
- I do some eccentric dancing. Dancing
- I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince.… Arbitrary
- I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity. Activity
- I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most… Any
- Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. Fine
- To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for… Abc
- When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants… All
- When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's… Abstract
- I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're… Get Irritable
- I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. Clogged
- The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat. Cape
- A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Anchor