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 books – I don’t care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

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.

– Roy Blount Jr. –

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