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I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

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Donna Leon

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.

Begins, Care, Distinction, Fact, Facts, Stories
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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.

Know, Lazy, People, Perhaps, Trying

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

Happens, Know, Novel, Plan, Plans

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Affection, Cities, City, Italian, Loyalty

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.

Angel, Bell, Cities, Distance, Entire

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.

Demand, Enormous, Intellect, Spit, Thinking, Writing
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