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 kids bird
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.
oysters way died
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
should-have giving advice
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
atlanta void form
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.
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.
matter usage ought
Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
school sleep sacrifice
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
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.