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.
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
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
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals. - Georges Simenon
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.
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
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. - Georges Simenon
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. - Georges Simenon
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. - Georges Simenon
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother. - Georges Simenon
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
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 … - Georges Simenon
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 …
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. - Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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