"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy."
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Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 146.
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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer of crime novels, best known as the creator of Commissaire Maigret. His adult life was largely spent in France, the United States and Switzerland.
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