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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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The New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell has always been an inspiration of craft; Peter De Vries has been an inspiration for humor.
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At some point most writers realize they sound the way they’re supposed to sound, Trillin says.
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Trying to figure out what goes first and what goes second.
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Although a writer never gets it quite perfect, the joy of laughter and discovery is enough to make a living.
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Nobody ever thought there’d be a rich reporter, Trillin says.
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The worst thing that could happen to a Midwesterner, Trillin says, is to have someone tell your mother at the supermarket that you’d gotten too big for your britches.
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Canadians believe that recycling will make them pure, Trillin says. Maybe Americans can learn a thing or two from that.