Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Me

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
  • English

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Different
  • Literature

• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Literature
  • Distance
  • View

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • English
  • Literature

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Literature

• Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

  

  Craig Sheffer
  • Focus
  • Path

• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Door

• I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Literature
  • Temperature