I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Donna LeonSo much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna LeonI 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.
Donna LeonA 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.
Donna Leon