Donna Leon
Donna Leon
Donna Leonis the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1942
CountryUnited States of America
justice nine ruth
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
lunch files knows
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
care facts stories
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.
novel plans outlines
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
fun successful rich
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
book writing two
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.
people favors asks
favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
people way bars
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.
ideas justice gone
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.
people want advantage
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.
loyalty italian cities
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
without-hope
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
violence fiction painful
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
military antagonism particular
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.