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 SimenonIf your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
Georges SimenonI have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
Georges SimenonWe 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 SimenonI 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.
Georges Simenon