Obama’s the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he’s thinking about what he’s saying while he’s saying it, and that’s a rare thing in politicians.

— Roy Blount Jr.

Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

— Roy Blount Jr.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

It’s my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

— Roy Blount Jr.

I think what’s really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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

— Roy Blount Jr.

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?

— Roy Blount Jr.

I do some eccentric dancing.

— Roy Blount Jr.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

— Roy Blount Jr.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount Jr.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.

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.

— Roy Blount Jr.
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