Calvin Trillin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  Calvin Trillin

  Inspirational, Writing, Sound

  Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

• In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, America, Events

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Might, Interest

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Inappropriate, Ifs

  "Not Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. September 30, 2011.

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Delivery

• 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.'

  Calvin Trillin

  Monday, Writing, Sunday

• 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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Self Confidence, Thinking

• A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Writing, Lunch

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

• There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Inappropriate, Source

  "Not Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin" by Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. September 30, 2011.

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