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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I never know what’s going to happen in a novel. I don’t have a plan or an outline. Donna Leon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state. Donna Leon Read Quote
