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Georges Simenon

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Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon - has the following books at our site 

Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets
Maigret and The Enigmatic Lett
Maigret at the Crossroads
Maigret and the Apparition (Harvest/HBJ Book)
Maigret and the Hotel Magestic
Maigret's Christmas, Nine Stories
Maigret and the Wine Merchant
Maigret and the Killer
Maigret in Vichy
Maigret and the Madwoman
Maigret and the Bum
Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret and the Wine Merchant
Lock No. 1
Madame Maigret's Own Case
Maigret in New York's Underworld
Inspector Maigret Omnibus I
A Maigret Trio
The Clockmaker
The Blue Room

"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. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don’t think an artist can ever be happy. Because, first, I think that if a man has the urge to be an artist, it is because he needs to find himself. Every writer tries to find himself through his characters, through all his writing.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. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don’t think an artist can ever be happy. Because, first, I think that if a man has the urge to be an artist, it is because he needs to find himself. Every writer tries to find himself through his characters, through all his writing."

More About Georges Simenon

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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