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. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
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. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
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. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
I don’t leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
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.’ Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
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. Adriana Trigiani Read Quote
