"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy."
— Georges Simenon

January 1, 1970

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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.