“Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.”

American author and entrepreneur, contemporary

Adriana Trigiani is an American author, playwright, television writer and producer, film director, screenwriter, and producer based in New York City. She has 89 quotes on the site and is known for a wide-ranging creative career across books, stage, film, and television. She has written eighteen books and has published a novel a year since 2000. Her work spans several forms, reflecting a career that moves between fiction, scriptwriting, directing, producing, and entrepreneurship.