Adriana Trigiani Quotes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

I dwell in possibility.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

I love the challenge of new ideas.

There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made.

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.