I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
From Roy Blount, Jr.
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.
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.
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
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