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Roy Blount, Jr.
American Writer
Born: Oct 4, 1941
Down Me Think Word Words You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Roy Blount, Jr.
Property Money Worth Language Too Physical Abstract True Real Equity Same Gets Anymore Anything Far Far Away Then Derived Suddenly Away Actual
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. Roy Blount, Jr.
Plants Wife Weed Trouble Own Favorite Hop Telling One Thing My Own Tend Weeds Head Like Know Around Off Grab Get Which Thing
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. Roy Blount, Jr.
Words Better Had Like Around Anyone Literary Grind Who Playing
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor. Roy Blount, Jr.
Humor Think Fine Fine Line About Scary Scary Movies Horror Between Line Movies
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.
Words Money Worth School Language College Other Took Our Once High High School Studied Most French Course Italian German Any Anymore Anything Crash Might Far English
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.
You Words Word Think Say Arbitrary Wince About Physicality How Lots Just
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Roy Blount, Jr.
Good You Book Down Anchor Gin Having Another Up Getting Heavy Holds Keeps Tonic
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. Roy Blount, Jr.
Learning Women Harvard About Studying Like Clinic Mayo Literature
I do some eccentric dancing. Roy Blount, Jr.
Dancing Some Eccentric
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. Roy Blount, Jr.
Me Remember Made Long Before Medium I Can ABC Fingers Like Learned Felt Robust Always Been Them Letters Bones
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Roy Blount, Jr.
Together Party Local Bookstore Go Friends Get Your
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity. Roy Blount, Jr.
Think Solitary Tend Like Activity
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. Roy Blount, Jr.
Mind Some Written Conceived Most Human Sentences Human Mind Ever

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