Calvin Trillin Book Quotations

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

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

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

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

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

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.