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
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.
writing doe three
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
writing oxen genius
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
mean writing style
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
writing way interrupted
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
writing talking way
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
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.
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.
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?