Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIThere’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.
More Adriana Trigiani Quotes
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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment.
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I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
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On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.
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I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.
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I am in total silence when I write.
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No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe.
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The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it’s a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself.
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They figure out what you need and they give it to you – without you asking.
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And who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
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The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,
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The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
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I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me.
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The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
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Motherhood changes everything.
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