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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.

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Donna Leon

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

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Donna Leon

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.

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Donna Leon

I listen to Handel’s vocal music, almost exclusively.

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Donna Leon

I don’t go to the movies because I don’t like films.

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Donna Leon

The character I created, ‘Commissario Brunetti,’ who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I’d like to have dinner with.

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Donna Leon

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that.

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Donna Leon

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.

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Donna Leon

I’m involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

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Donna Leon

I never know what’s going to happen in a novel. I don’t have a plan or an outline.

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Donna Leon

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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Donna Leon

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 there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

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