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" I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. "
Donna Leon
Go
Lunch
Never
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" I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. "
Donna Leon
Time
Best
Enough
" I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. "
Donna Leon
Take
Famous
Being
" I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book. "
Donna Leon
Writing
Me
Book
" All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. "
Donna Leon
Through
Having
School
" A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact. "
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Care
Begins
Fact
" So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. "
Donna Leon
Against
Crime
Women
" I don't go to the movies because I don't like films. "
Donna Leon
Go
Movies
Because
" And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that. "
Donna Leon
Want
Famous
I Am
" I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him. "
Donna Leon
Stop
Nothing
Find
" I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively. "
Donna Leon
Music
Almost
Vocal
" I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion. "
Donna Leon
Passion
Real
Music
" The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. "
Donna Leon
Utterly
Sort
Hope
" Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. "
Donna Leon
Liberal
Supreme Court
Court
" I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. "
Donna Leon
Be Happy
Happy
Famous
" The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with. "
Donna Leon
Dinner
Book
Character
" Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. "
Donna Leon
Most
Less
Profound
" I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book. "
Donna Leon
Talking
Book
Friends
" Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state. "
Donna Leon
Affection
City
Feel
" I have always had a particular antagonism for the military. "
Donna Leon
Always
Antagonism
Had
" I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. "
Donna Leon
Me
Memory
Book
" I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television. "
Donna Leon
Music
Love
Life
" Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. "
Donna Leon
Human Nature
Nature
People
" I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot. "
Donna Leon
Women
Words
Greatest
" I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. "
Donna Leon
Writing
Crime
Know
" I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. "
Donna Leon
Know
Plan
Going
" The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. "
Donna Leon
Letters
Write
Very