Explore Quotes by Calvin Trillin

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

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

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

There's always a source for humor.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

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 expression?

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

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

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

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

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

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

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

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

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