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 Read Quote
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. Donna Leon Read Quote
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. Donna Leon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My father read ‘The New York Times,’ my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. Donna Leon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
