Georges Simenon was the prolific Belgian author who wrote many stories about French detective Jules Maigret.

Quotes by Georges Simenon in Time One

He was not really thinking. Only scraps of thoughts which didn’t add up to a coherent whole.

[Maigret] was drifting. Impressions formed and dissolved. He had lost all sense of time and place.

There’s good money in carrying onions to England.

[N]othing could be deduced, except that reality was improbable.

Some people’s universe consists of only a few streets ….

The whole problem is to make something more real than life. Well, I’ve done that! I’ve made you more real than life. I remained speechless. For a moment I could find nothing to say, poor unreal policeman that I was.

He was not following through an idea. One might say he was rather like a sponge.