Roy Blount, Jr.
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth4 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
summer dostoyevsky persons
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
dog cat eye
A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.
bookstores innocent pleasure
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
delight doe playfulness
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
husband writing thinking
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.
roots swamps american-english
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
weed wife trouble
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 that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
long letters abcs
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.
thinking scary lines
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
library pants firsts
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
dog nature cat
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.
drinking literature study
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
weed thinking solitary
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
thinking arbitrary wince
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?