Book Quote by Roy Blount, Jr

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

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

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

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

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

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

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

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I do some eccentric dancing.

— Roy Blount, Jr