Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.
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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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We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.
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I get very attached to places.
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Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.
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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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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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I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
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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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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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Work and love - this is interesting to me.
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One of the big problems we had was, 'Where are we going to put the trailer?' So now they've found places - they did 'A Walk in the Woods,' they put it with that movie 'War Room,' they put it with 'Ricki and the Flash.'
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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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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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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 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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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.
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
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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 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 understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.