"There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal."

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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

— Georges Simenon