Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

About Roy Blount, Jr.:

Roy Alton Blount, Jr. is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist. He appeared as himself in Treme. He performs with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. He is also a former president of the Authors Guild.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Eaters of Wonder Bread Must be underbred. So little to eat. Where's the wheat?

Roy Blount Jr.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Roy Blount Jr.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

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.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frig...

Roy Blount, Jr.

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. How about that?

Roy Blount, Jr.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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 are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all t...

Roy Blount, Jr.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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 as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Roy Blount, Jr.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Roy Blount, Jr.

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

Roy Blount, Jr.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.

Roy Blount Jr.

Author Bio

  • NameRoy Blount, Jr.
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 4, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America