What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
From Calvin Trillin
There's always a source for humor.
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.
Health food makes me sick.
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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