A biography for Roy Blount Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.”
“Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where's the wheat?”
“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.”