“The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when ...” — Adriana Trigiani 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.'”

“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.”

“I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.”

“The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.”

“I've always been a composer dependent on texts.”

“If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.”