“ 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.
“ 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 heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed… Roy Blount, Jr.
“ 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 book… Roy Blount, Jr.
“ But authorship is not to be denied. Not even if you are Thomas Pynchon and stonewall all attempts to establish your actual existence. My own feeling is that Pynchon does not exist, and neither do the… Roy Blount, Jr.
“ So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of th… Roy Blount, Jr.
“ When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a per… 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.
