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
roots swamps american-english
That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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.
cat hey problem
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
real language far-away
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
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.
weed garden thinking
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.
father organization president
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
grind playing-around
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
arbitrary relation scholar
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
thanksgiving children santa
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
art creativity writing
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
lying thinking winning
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
library cards thousand
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.