Inspirational Quote by Georges Simenon Download Open image “A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.” — Georges Simenon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Men Mother Novelists Parenting
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The change in the girl's face was more subtle, almost invisible; it was not joy, there was no sparkle, but something like a serene… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“I’m worried that the chicken may be overcooked …’ she said as she served Maigret. And her tone was the one in which she might… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
