"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."

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Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

Georges Simenon

#Brother Quotes #Character Quotes #Age Quotes

“Just have fun and take every bit of experience that you can.”
“The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas, Sir Matthew Hale, Francis Hargrave (1818). “A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time: Including Tables of Parallel Reference, Analytical Tables of Contents, and a Copious Digested Index ..”, p.444
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.”
“I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.”

Source : "Robert Coover: a life in writing". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.
“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”
“I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.”
“Life gives nothing to man without labor.”
“I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.”

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