68 Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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'.

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

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.