I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
About Donna Leon
Donna Leonis the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. The novels are written in English, and have been translated into many foreign languages, although – at Leon’s request – not into Italian, as she formerly lived there, still visits monthly, and prefers not to have recognition in the country.
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I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
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.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
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.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
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.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
American crime novelist (born 1942)
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
American crime novelist (born 1942)