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Donna Leon
American
Author
Born:
Sep 29
,
1942
About
Because
Book
Me
Music
Work
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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.
Donna Leon
Me
Memory
Book
Remember
Books
No Memory
Scene
Beats
Know
Because
Happens
Them
Might
Now
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
Donna Leon
Work
Garden
Dog
Mother
Father
Secretarial
Brother
Had
New
Read
Times
Did
York
New York
New York Times
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 agencies.
Donna Leon
State
Moral
Law-Abiding
Tend
Most
Also
Italians
Than
Suspicion
Agencies
Less
Profound
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
Donna Leon
Loyalty
Affection
State
City
Rather
Feel
Italian
Than
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, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
Donna Leon
Friendship
Time
Best
First
Enough
Remain
Almost
Venice
Make
First Time
Came
Years
Friends
After
Then
Who
Lucky
Here
Two
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon
Outline
Never
Know
Going
Happen
Plan
Novel
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
Donna Leon
Be Happy
Happy
Have Fun
Rich
Never
Just
Famous
Wanted
Successful
Fun
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
Donna Leon
Films
Like
Because
Go
Movies
I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
Donna Leon
Music
Vocal
Almost
Listen
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
Donna Leon
Me
Kiss
Brits
Write
Polite
Very
Germans
Spanish
Reserved
Swiss
Letters
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Donna Leon
Liberal
Nine
Ruth
Most
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Justices
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.
Donna Leon
Care
Distinction
Fine
About
Seem
Fact
Between
Always
Making
Passes
Italians
Begins
Story
Which
Speculation
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Donna Leon
Lunch
Something
Never
Know
Go
Going
Just
File
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.
Donna Leon
Work
Best
Nature
People
Better
Try
Greedy
Human Nature
Else
Weak
About
Lazy
Perhaps
Know
Make
Around
Understand
Does
Italians
Than
Human
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Dishonest
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