Grind Quote by Roy Blount, Jr Download Open image “Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.” — Roy Blount, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grind Language Playing around
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe. — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see more clearly’… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better… — Mark Twain 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 that if… — 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 wives. — Roy Blount, Jr 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 lose the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — 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 to follow… — Roy Blount, Jr 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 Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — 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 me. — Roy Blount, Jr 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. Glare at… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My job defines me, amuses me, thrills me and makes me feel like I am making a difference.” — Kathryn Primm Copy Share Image
You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go… — Chris Gronkowski Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees… — Megyn Price Copy Share Image
