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" I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful. "
Adriana Trigiani
Work
Mind
Love
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" Work and love - this is interesting to me. "
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Interesting
" The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half. "
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Moon
Clouds
Looking
" Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. "
Adriana Trigiani
Life
Gift
Talent
" I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. "
Adriana Trigiani
Reading
Loved
Love
" We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been. "
Adriana Trigiani
People
Ways
Been
" 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. "
Adriana Trigiani
World
Me
I Am
" There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. "
Adriana Trigiani
Food
Day
Earth
" I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. "
Adriana Trigiani
Quiet
Going
Like
" I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest. "
Adriana Trigiani
Choose
My Own
Love
" If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people. "
Adriana Trigiani
People
Hope
Honor
" Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. "
Adriana Trigiani
World
Best
Book
" I never knew anybody who didn't want to have a great love in their lives and to make a family. "
Adriana Trigiani
Great
Family
Who
" 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? "
Adriana Trigiani
My Life
Settle
Why
" 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. "
Adriana Trigiani
Family
People
Reality
" 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. "
Adriana Trigiani
Job
Writing
World
" Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven. "
Adriana Trigiani
Family
Us
Preparation
" You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. "
Adriana Trigiani
Work
Small
Family
" Motherhood changes everything. "
Adriana Trigiani
Motherhood
Everything
Changes
" 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. "
Adriana Trigiani
Young
Talking
Story
" I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. "
Adriana Trigiani
New
Restaurant
Phone
" '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. "
Adriana Trigiani
Story
Age
Artist
" But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. "
Adriana Trigiani
Look
I Am
Ship
" I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless. "
Adriana Trigiani
Understand
Quick
Own