It’s service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIYou have work anytime. But love? Not always.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
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I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
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A library is a home filled with our stories.
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With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.
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No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
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Food is so important – it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun.
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Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there’s a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith.
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Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences.
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When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.
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And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.
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All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.
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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.
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In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
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I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.
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I don’t even like the sound of the dryer going – I like the quiet.
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