List of Donna Leon Quotes

I Just Go To Lunch. And I Never Know When Something Is Going Into The File And Something Is Not.

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.

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.

My Father Read 'the New York Times,' My Mother Did Secretarial Work, We Had A Dog, We Had A Garden, I Had A Brother.

I Don't Go To The Movies Because I Don't Like Films.

I Have Always Had A Particular Antagonism For The Military.

All Through Graduate School, Instead Of Having A Television I Read Murder Mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Sit Around The Bars, Talked To People, Ate In The Restaurants, And Chatted With The Old Ladies On The Street. Fishermen Are Pretty Much That Way.

The Ending Is One Of My Blackest, Utterly Without Hope Of Any Sort.

I Never Wanted To Be Rich Or Successful Or Famous. I Just Wanted To Be Happy And Have Fun.

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.

Venetians Feel Affection And Loyalty To Their City, Rather Than To The Italian State.