Jules Renard Quotes about Writing

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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Writing, Way, Interrupted

Style is to forget all styles.

Writing, Design, Style

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.45, Tin House Books

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.

Fashion, Writing, Air

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

Writing, Literature, Pay

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Writing, Doe, Three

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Writing, Talking, Way

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

Writing, Oxen, Toil

Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Mean, Writing, Style

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Money, Writing, Literature

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Success, Writing, People

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.286, Tin House Books

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Fall, Writing, Dying

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

Country, Inspiration, Writing