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
couple deaths five last maybe six
There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.
people lazy trying
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.
distance angel cities
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
lying people fallen-world
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?
mother dog brother
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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.
novel plans outlines
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
television tvs adults
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.
writing thinking demand
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.
school murder-mysteries television
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
film
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
pleasure persons
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
justice nine ruth
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.