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
pin
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
human written
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
birthdays books buy easy looking next twelve
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.
pigs ham sound
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.
south
The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.
bookstores innocent pleasure
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.
roots swamps american-english
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
library pants firsts
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
drinking literature study
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
grind playing-around
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.