About Jules Renard:
Pierre-Jules Renard was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (A Week in the Country) (1906).
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules RenardWords are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules RenardLiterature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Jules RenardThe peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
Jules Renard