“I write fast because I have not the brains to write slow.”



His name was Georges Simenon. He’s best known for two
things. He wrote a series of 75 Inspector Maigret novels featuring Paris police
superintendent Jules Maigret. And he wrote each his novels very quickly: usually
in about a week and a half.

He was born in Liege, Belgium and quit school when he was
15. He published his first novel