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
nature heaven pieces
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
grow learn less life understand
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
audience audiences born curtain die last night presence rise seen
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
deceive faces silent timid
Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones
matter writes
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
less life love understand
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
goes last moments
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last
letters ridiculous poor
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
country inspiration writing
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
fall writing dying
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
truth power shock
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
war patriot bottom
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
art nudge littles
Art: to nudge truth along a little.
strength strong sweat
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.