Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Roy Blount, Jr. quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.”
“A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”
“English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.”
“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.”
“The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.”
“According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.”
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