An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

Roy Blount Jr.

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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.' -- Roy Blount Jr.

Roy Blount Jr.

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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.

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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.

Roy Blount Jr.


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Eaters of Wonder Bread
Must be underbred.
So little to eat.
Where's the wheat?

Roy Blount Jr.

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When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.

Roy Blount Jr.


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If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.

Roy Blount Jr.

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