Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—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's Popular Quotes

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

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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.

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If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

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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.

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I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

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

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

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

- Georges Simenon