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The lake and the mountains hav...

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I have always tried to write i...

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

Writing is not a profession bu...

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

Writing is not a profession bu...

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

The lake and the mountains hav...

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

The place smelled of fairgroun...

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I would like to carve my novel...

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

We are all potentially charact...

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I would like to carve my novel...

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersЂ'I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

A novelist is a man who doesn'...

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

It just happened. As though a ...

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I write fast, because I have n...

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I have made love to ten thousa...

I have made love to ten thousand women.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

Trotsky rises to give me his h...

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

And Boucard desisted, probably...

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I am at home everywhere, and n...

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

For 30 years I have tried to m...

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

I'm a bit like a sponge. When ...

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

Madame....gloatingly savored h...

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

It was night and I could see a...

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Georges Simenon 31 quotes

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