Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Book, Anchors, Funny Drinking

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

• Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Party, Book, Together

• 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.

  Time, Book, Writing

• Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Book, Character, Rose

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