If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Jules RenardRead
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Interpretation
Writing allows individuals to express themselves freely without interruptions.
This quote by Jules Renard highlights the power of writing as a form of communication that grants the writer the opportunity to convey thoughts and ideas uninterrupted. It emphasizes how writing serves as a unique platform for self-expression and reflection, enabling individuals to articulate their feelings and perspectives in a manner that might not be possible in spoken conversations.
In practice
During a seminar on creative writing, the quote can be used to encourage participants to embrace their unique voices.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
I have no religion,β says Borneau, βbut I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.β Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
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