Jules Renard Quotes About Writing
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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.
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There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
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It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
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Style is to forget all styles.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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