Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Reading taught me how to write.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

If you can talk, you can write.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Fashion is an expression of what you're feeling.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

You can't write if you don't read.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.