Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Adriana Trigiani is an American author known for her bestselling novels, including "Big Stone Gap" and "The Shoemaker's Wife." Trigiani's works often explore themes of family, love, and Italian-American culture, drawing inspiration from her own heritage. Her engaging storytelling and relatable characters have made her a beloved figure in the world of contemporary fiction.

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.

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

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.

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at an... -Adriana Trigiani

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

I get very attached to places.... -Adriana Trigiani

I get very attached to places.

I care about the box office, so that's why I go from town to town: because I want people to see it. I would give it for free; I just want those houses full of people watching it.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

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.

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.

Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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?

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movi... -Adriana Trigiani

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

'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.

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.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to... -Adriana Trigiani

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always an... -Adriana Trigiani

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

Shoemakers and tanners form a symbiotic relationship out of necessity. One provides the leather while the other whips it into a glorious creation.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

I live in the greatest city in the world for resea... -Adriana Trigiani

I live in the greatest city in the world for research.

Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.

On the cover of 'All the Stars' is a red grosgrain ribbon. It's Loos's ribbon. Ageless, fabulous Loos - she tricked the very people who would have cast her aside like an old shoe if they knew the truth.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel.

Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.

I don't leave the house without a book, and I neve... -Adriana Trigiani

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

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.

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.... -Adriana Trigiani

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

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