Federico Moccia

"Sometimes it is difficult to understand a person, even if you know them well. And if she's a girl, it's really difficult. If you only saw that girl for five minutes, then it's really impossible. (from Desperately Seeking Niki, Rizzoli)"

"We light up with love and beautiful stars remain watching. (quoted in Corriere della Sera, October 22, C.E.2009)"

"And there are gestures, small ones, or rather the smaller the better, after which nothing is the same as before. Immediate gestures, which you don't expect, without which nothing would begin. Gestures without a why but they create many of them. (from Desperately Seeking Niki)"

"You and me, like beautiful stars, 30 thousand meters above the sky (quoted in Corriere della Sera, October 22, C.E.2009)"

"You and I, elevated to love. (quoted in A kiss by Moccia)"

"Your kiss smells like a stormy ocean. (quoted in Corriere della Sera, 22 October 2009)"

"His fragile security melts immediately, like an ice cream at the seaside on August 15th in the hands of someone who has decided to go on a diet. (from Sorry but I want to marry you, Rizzoli)"

"Your voice, your perfume, a sinking heart. (quoted in Corriere della Sera, October 22, C.E.2009)"

"An expected kiss is like a thousand sleepless nights. (quoted in Corriere della Sera, October 22, C.E.2009)"

"A heart sinking in an instant reveals a thousand secrets. (quoted in Corriere della Sera, October 22, C.E.2009)"

"[In C.E.1992] I worked in cinema and TV. I started in the footsteps of my father, Giuseppe Moccia, aka Pipolo. His first steps had been years earlier as assistant director on Attila flagello di Dio, the film with Diego Abatantuono and Rita Rusic."

"The Ventaglio [publishing house] closed its doors but the book [Three meters above the sky] was now circulating in photocopies among the kids. It thus arrived in the hands of film producer Riccardo Tozzi who thought of making a film of it. At that point I also found the publisher. I sent the book to Feltrinelli, where Alberto Rollo worked as editor. In four days the bookstores sold 30 thousand copies. For three years he remained first in the rankings."

"I was actually the one who brought the first padlock to Ponte Milvio. The book [I want you] was supposed to be released on February 9, 2006, the day before I went out in the evening to put the lock on. I said to myself: suppose someone reading this comes here to see if the story is true..."

"At the first presentation of Tre metri sopra il cielo in a Milanese bookshop there were five people and in the end even the owner left. At ten in the evening I found myself alone eating in a lame pizzeria. However, in Spain and South America they continue to read me and the Babi and Step trilogy was translated into the United States and inspired a Netflix series."

"With his books he gets rich, making entire generations stupid. (Andrea Rivera)"

"Three meters above the sky (C.E.2004)"

"I want you (C.E.2007)"