There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image