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
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.
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.
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.
add certain character children created four gave later pipe pleasures taste
Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.
new-york night lazy
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.
men saws young
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
mother men novelists
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.