Quotes by Calvin Trillin

About Calvin Trillin:

Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Calvin Trillin

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.

Calvin Trillin

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.

Calvin Trillin

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Calvin Trillin

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

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 express...

Calvin Trillin

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

Calvin Trillin

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

Calvin Trillin

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Calvin Trillin

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Calvin Trillin

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...

Calvin Trillin

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

Calvin Trillin

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

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Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

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Author Bio

  • NameCalvin Trillin
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornDecember 5, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist