Georges Simenon Quotes

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

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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.

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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

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Writing is considered a profession, and I don't think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else.

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

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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.

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I tried to give to my words just the weight that a stroke of Cezanne's gave to an apple.

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

Georges Simenon
Writing is considered a profession, and I don't think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else.

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Every writer tries to find himself through his characters, through all his writing.

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Because society today is without a very strong religion, without a firm hierarchy of social classes, and people are afraid of the big organization in which they are just a little part, for them reading certain novels is a little like looking through the keyhole to learn what the neighbor is doing and thinking—does he have the same inferiority complex, the same vices, the same temptations?

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

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