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
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South. — Roy Blount, Jr Direction 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
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 Copy Share Image
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Book Copy Share Image
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word… — Roy Blount, Jr 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 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 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 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas… — Roy Blount, Jr Cat Copy Share Image
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the… — Roy Blount, Jr Husband 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.” — Roy Blount, Jr Cold hearted 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 Copy Share Image
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr 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 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
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. — Roy Blount, Jr Cinema Copy Share Image
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is. — Roy Blount, Jr Atlanta 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
