Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
monday writing sunday
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
writing delivery
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
writing might interest
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
book writing lunch
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
writing inappropriate source
There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
writing america may
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
crown handed peter
Ross begat Shawn. He handed down the crown of St Peter to Shawn.
bush
Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme.
chicken following garlic jewish kept table vampires
Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
best kansas
The best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City.
numbers looks queues
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.