“Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.”

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.