Jules Renard
Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renardwas a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotteand Les Histoires Naturelles. Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompreand Huit jours à la campagne...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth22 February 1864
CountryFrance
hiking bird mind
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
success writing people
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
money writing literature
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
writing style forget
Style is to forget all styles.
writing pay cows
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
inspirational life humility
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
4th-of-july choices liberty
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
hero men honorable-man
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
self bored insult
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
acting actors talent
Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
fashion writing air
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
dream moon thinking
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
wine water succeed
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
anger thinking mad
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.