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
book easier
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
people serious disturbed
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
wells
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
thinking mind world
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
book average yogurt
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
weed long people
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
writing delivery
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
wise preparation chinese
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
world republican
Why in the world are you a Republican?
purity
The price of purity is purists.
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.'
expression magazines firsts
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
issues government people
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.