Georges Simenon is the forum Vintage Crime's author of the week. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
Simenon appears to be another unlikely humanitarian. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
"I don't think writing is a profession," says Simenon. From Wordnik.com. [Their Way With Words] Reference
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04 — Simenon, Georges. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
"You were going to lend me a detective story by Simenon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Key to Rebecca]
“Since when has Simenon ceased to be a friend of ours?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
And Simenon was the first to encourage me in this undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Simenon went on, almost regretfully and as though he envied me. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Since you cannot commit sins while asleep-not even you, Simenon!. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
"Well, why not, he invented us all" Simenon is said to have said. From Wordnik.com. [In praise of Andrew Sullivan] Reference
Simenon was just off for Africa, where he was to spend nearly a year. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Piaget had the world's messiest desk; Simenon had one of the neatest. From Wordnik.com. [The Writer's Desk] Reference
Simenon has studied even the effects of the weather on unstable people. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Hesitates]
“Between what you say about yourself and what Simenon says about you.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
When did Simenon begin writing his Maigrets, and how long did he keep it up?. From Wordnik.com. [Home, James, or Harpur & Iles get back to basics] Reference
The proprietor of the site asks, Do you have a favourite Georges Simenon novel?. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
I was please to read that you plan on publishing more novels by Georges Simenon. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from the Editor on the Occasion of Publishing the 200th NYRB Classic] Reference
Actually, Simenon is now just about the age I was when we met for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Last week I made an error in attributing a Simenon introduction to John Banville. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
Also, I just finished "The Man Who Watched Trains" and look forward to more Simenon. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from the Editor on the Occasion of Publishing the 200th NYRB Classic] Reference
Maigret and the Saturday caller/Georges Simenon; translated by Tony White. — 1st ed. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
Which affords me a welcome opportunity of explaining my relations with Monsieur Simenon. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
We talked about it not long ago, Simenon and I, in my apartment on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
These are the cases about which Simenon has written most and will, I suppose, go on writing. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Simenon might have answered, like the painter who gives his model a crooked nose or a squint. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Insouciant enough, that is, to prefer Simenon to Stendhal, and intelligent enough to enjoy both. From Wordnik.com. [Furst Plunges His Meaty Dagger] Reference
It was to this that Simenon was alluding when, during out first interview, he declared so categorically. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Koko rose effortlessly to a bookshelf six feet off the floor and settled down between Simenon and Conan Doyle. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
And that is why all the stories I have read, including those of my friend Simenon, are more or less inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Simenon had even had it baptized by the abbot of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris when it was moored at the Pont-Neuf. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
Every week of the year a Simenon book is either being started, finished, published, translated, filmed or dramatized. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
In several of his books Simenon described us as living on Place des Vosges, without offering the slightest explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Then turn to a major event: the first translation into English of a Simenon short-story collection that predated Maigret. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Well, of all those, there was one at least who had the good taste to cheat Simenon and to consider my truth more valid than his. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
I have sometimes had an uneasy feeling that Simenon was somehow trying to apologize for me to the public for joining the police. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
As for the famous overcoat with the velvet collar, it was with my wife that Simenon had to have it out one day, rather than with me. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Simenon has travelled a great deal and once lived on a cutter, making long journeys of exploration round the coasts of Northern Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
His first Maigrets, Simenon says, were informed by a sense he had throughout his life: that basically the human being is irresponsible. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Hesitates]
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