Georges Simenon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Character #Differences #Novel
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersâ€”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 #Character #Age
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
-- Georges Simenon

#Writing #Artist #Thinking
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
-- Georges Simenon

#Writing #Simple #Earth
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
-- Georges Simenon

#Men #Saws #Parades
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
-- Georges Simenon

#Communication #Example #Problem
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
-- Georges Simenon

#Fear Of Death #Adore
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
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
-- Georges Simenon

#Happiness #World
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 #Night #Lakes
Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.
-- Georges Simenon

#Pigs
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
-- Georges Simenon

#Vision #World #Kind
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
-- Georges Simenon

#Years #Criminals #Understood
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

#New York #Night #Lazy
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

#Long #Decision #Moments
A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.
-- Georges Simenon

#Mother #Men #Novelists
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
-- Georges Simenon

#Writing #Brain
I have made love to ten thousand women.
-- Georges Simenon

#Sex #Made #Thousand
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
-- Georges Simenon

#Light #Hands #Giving
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

#Eye #Men #Serenity
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
-- Georges Simenon

#Home #Never Quit #Stranger
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
-- Georges Simenon

#Sculpture #Pieces #Woods

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