Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

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.