A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother. Georges Simenon More Quotes by Georges Simenon More Quotes From Georges Simenon The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. Georges Simenon nature real lakes 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 novel differences character I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong. Georges Simenon never-quit stranger home 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 ink writing water If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness. Georges Simenon justice happiness world For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals. Georges Simenon understood criminals years If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. Georges Simenon vision kind world Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. Georges Simenon artist writing thinking I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. Georges Simenon brain writing I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. Georges Simenon simple earth writing The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world Georges Simenon communication two people 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 brother age character We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them Georges Simenon barriers I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. Georges Simenon late adore fear-of-death 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 serenity eye men I have made love to ten thousand women. Georges Simenon thousand made sex 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 lazy new-york night 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 moon lakes night 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 moments decision long One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. Georges Simenon communication problem example
