Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard

The bourgeois are other people.
Jules Renard

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
Jules Renard

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Jules Renard

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.
Jules Renard

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
Jules Renard

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jules Renard

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Jules Renard

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Jules Renard

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

Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard

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