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She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.
Georges Simenon Quotes: She came forward, the outlines
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Georges Simenon Quotes: Writing is not a profession
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 Quotes: It was night and I
It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost all of them like that. And it definitely got Maigret's back up. It made him think of clothing that was too neat, too clean, too well-pressed.
Georges Simenon Quotes: It was the serene cheerfulness
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 Quotes: I would like to carve
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them
Georges Simenon Quotes: We live in a time
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 Quotes: It just happened. As though
At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before they spread out into black spots. At the same time thunder rumbled from the direction of Charenton and an eddy of wind lifted the dust, carried away the hats of passers-by who took to their heels and who, after a few confused moments, were all in the shelter of doorways or under the awnings of cafe terraces.
Street pedlars of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine scurried about with an apron or a sack over their heads, pushing their carts as they tried to run. Rivulets already began to flow along the two sides of the street, the gutters sang, and on every floor you could see people hurriedly closing their windows.
Georges Simenon Quotes: At five-thirty the rain began
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
Georges Simenon Quotes: I write fast, because I
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 Quotes: The place smelled of fairgrounds,
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
Georges Simenon Quotes: I am at home everywhere,
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon Quotes: The lake and the mountains
I have made love to ten thousand women.
Georges Simenon Quotes: I have made love to
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
Georges Simenon Quotes: One of them, for example,
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
Georges Simenon Quotes: Trotsky rises to give me
I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon Quotes: I adore life but I
If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.
Georges Simenon Quotes: If I try to define
That feeling about trains, for instance. Of course he had long outgrown the boyish glamour of the steam-engine. Yet there was something that had an appeal for him in trains, especially in night-trains, which always put queer, vaguely improper notions in his head - though he would have been hard put to it to define them. Also he had an impression that those who leave by night-trains leave forever - an impression heightened the previous night by his glimpse of those Italians piled into their carriage like emigrants
Georges Simenon Quotes: That feeling about trains, for
The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deeper. You could hear the Seine flowing. Sounds carried farther, and people in their beds could feel, as they did every night, the vibration of the ground as buses rolled past.
Georges Simenon Quotes: The sun finally died in
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
Georges Simenon Quotes: For 30 years I have
He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.
Georges Simenon Quotes: He had read endless books,
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 Quotes: I'm a bit like a
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