Georges Simenon Quotes

France, Writer
February 13, 1903 – September, 4, 1989.

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was 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.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them.

Georges Simenon
- Writers
- Around
- Barriers
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Georges Simenon
- Fast
- Brains
- I Write

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Georges Simenon
- Mother
- Like
- Novelist
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

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

Georges Simenon
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

Georges Simenon
- World
- Happiness
- One
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Georges Simenon
- Fear
- Die
- Late

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

Georges Simenon
- Novel
- Wood
- Carve
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
- Decision
- Moment
- Happened