All Donna Leon Quotes
- Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and… Anyone
- All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. All
- I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow… Book
- 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… Abiding
- 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,… Acquaintanceship
- 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… Book
- 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… Beats
- 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… Cannot Comprehend