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
heard opinions repeat
I repeat to him the contradictory opinions I heard around Europe, not on Hitler's work, but on his personality, on his very worth.
nature real lakes
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
hands light giving
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
woods sculpture pieces
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
pigs
Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
moon night two
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.
long decision moments
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.
fear-of-death late adore
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
profession vocation
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness