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
drinking literature study
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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.
should-have mind affair
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
literature temperature truth-is
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
oysters way died
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
running thinking people
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
block believe writing
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.
book character rose
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
book party together
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
new-york exercise walking
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
dancing eccentric
I do some eccentric dancing.
thinking arbitrary wince
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?
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.
hate machines keyboards
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.