Calvin Trillin

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

— Calvin Trillin

#between #book #life #milk #shelf

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

#even #funny #funny people #get #know

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

#campaigns #haul #long #long haul #making

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

— Calvin Trillin

#connects #interests #me #might #place

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#capitalism #century #clean #comes #family

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

— Calvin Trillin

#robbed #writing #you #your

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#drive #humor #ideal #reader #subjective

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

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

#being #being funny #disability #funny #get