Jules Renard

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, read more

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.