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I do some eccentric dancing.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.
— Roy Blount Jr.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
— Roy Blount Jr.
When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount Jr.
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.
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.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
— 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.
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
— Roy Blount Jr.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
— Roy Blount Jr.
A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
— Roy Blount Jr.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
— 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.
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
— 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.
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.
The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
— Roy Blount Jr.
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.
— Roy Blount Jr.
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
— Roy Blount Jr.