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
life book average
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
home thinking world
Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
writing delivery
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
girl mother dinner-guests
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
people trying spices
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
family
Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
book average yogurt
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
discovery cooking records
It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
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.
book thinking pieces
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
book thinking three
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
people pages funny-people
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
hands my-family clean
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
people serious disturbed
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.