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.
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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, L...

Roy Blount Jr.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people...

Roy Blount, Jr.

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.

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

Roy Blount, Jr.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Roy Blount, Jr.

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy Blount, Jr.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Author Bio

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