Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenonwas a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 February 1903
CountryBelgium
vision world kind
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
barriers
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them
writing water littles
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.
writing simple earth
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
eye men serenity
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.
sex made thousand
I have made love to ten thousand women.
writing brain
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
years criminals understood
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
happiness world just-one
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
writing thinking artist
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
home never-quit stranger
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
character differences novel
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.
nature real lakes
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
brother character age
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.