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Writing Quotes by Calvin Trillin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
- If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
- When you're writing, you are robbed of your 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…
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