Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.
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'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
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We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.
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Work and love - this is interesting to me.
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I get very attached to places.
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I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
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I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
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I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
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The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'
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I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family.
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I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.
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Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.
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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then, just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
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The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century.
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You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.
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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
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I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories to the hungry public. We have more avenues to do it than ever before.