Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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?”

“I do some eccentric dancing.”

“Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.”

“Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.”

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

“I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.”

“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.”

“I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.”

“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.'”