Calvin Trillin Quotes

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
There's always a source for humor.
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.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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.'
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