“When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.” — Roy Blount, Jr Cold hearted 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
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr 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
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. — Roy Blount, Jr American english 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
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 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on… — Roy Blount, Jr Father Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Comedy Copy Share Image
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. — Roy Blount, Jr Art Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Artist Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
