Georges Simenon Quotes

• Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolutionary, Politician

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Communication

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

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communication, Problem

• Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Food

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mountains

• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politician

• I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• I adore life but I don’t fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Death, Life

• The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

  Georges Simenon

  Topics in Nature

• Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

  Georges Simenon

  Tags in Writers And Writing

Georges Simenon (10)

Birth:	13th February, 1903
Death:	4th September, 1989
Nationality:	Belgian
Profession:	Novelist

About

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium. He was a Belgian novelist. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, he is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. He wrote several novels include: Maigret and the Yellow Dog, The Crime of Inspector Maigret, The Crime at Lock 14, Maigret in Holland, The Engagement, Tropic Moon, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, The Strangers in the House, The Widow, Dirty snow, Pedigree, Red Lights, Maigret Sets a Trap, The Little Man from Archangel, and The Bottom of the Bottle.

Related Authors

• Joss Stirling
• Lisa Schroeder
• Colin Dexter
• Edwidge Danticat
• Anna Campbell
• Margaret Dilloway
• Henry Handel Richardson
• Nick Hornby
• Buchi Emecheta
• Alexander Jablokov

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 7th January

Births

• 1920 - Albert Meltzer
• 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston
• 1963 - Rand Paul
• 1960 - Loretta Sanchez
• 1957 - Nicholson Baker

Deaths

• 1980 - Larry Williams
• 1944 - Lou Henry Hoover
• 1981 - William Feather
• 1988 - Trevor Howard
• 1995 - Murray Rothbard