Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best, what scenes have stayed with them, what connections they've felt between my characters' lives and theirs.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.

I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in that song, they really struck my soul, totally.

I love signing the books; it's so exciting to see my readers in person.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.