Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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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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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
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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 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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I get very attached to places.
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Work and love - this is interesting to me.
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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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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 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 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 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 love rhinestones, faux jewelry.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.
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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.