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.

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• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

  I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of l

• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

  People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issue

• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

  With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would driv

• Calvin Trillin:

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

• Calvin Trillin:

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