Calvin Trillin Quotes About Writing
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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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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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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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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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