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
crazy thinking trying
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
father thinking yale
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
thinking two way
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
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 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.
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.
african buried hardest john obviously people somebody time
It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to do it more by herself. Somebody told me there's an African blessing, 'May we be buried by our children.' It's obviously the hardest loss.
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.
dark may sides
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
football sex school
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?
sound ears deceiving
Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?