Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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.
- 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
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.
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'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.
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.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. - 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 … - 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 …
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