A Quote by Roy Blount, Jr.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Roy Blount, Jr.
American - Writer
Born: October 4, 1941

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

John Hurt

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

Neil Gaiman

Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind, weeding out the thoughts of lack, limitation, and negativity. You must nurture and tend the thoughts of happiness, success, and purpose.

Randy Gage

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.

Gerard Way

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Dacia Maraini

Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.

Ron Kaufman

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

Uzodinma Iweala

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

Jacob Weisberg

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

Cary Fukunaga

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

Colin Hay

Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

Hans F. Sennholz

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.

Richard Ford

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Bill Gates

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Karl Marx

Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

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