O. Henry Quotes, Real Quotes, Writing Quotes

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Silence Quotes

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Bores You Quotes , Mosquitoes Quotes

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , People Quotes , Cash Quotes

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Moving Quotes , Two Quotes

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Wind Quotes , Horny Quotes

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Art Quotes , Food Quotes

No friendship is an accident.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Writing Quotes , Giving Quotes

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Love Quotes , Girl Quotes

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes , Littles Quotes

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Littles Quotes , Couches Quotes

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Home Quotes , Men Quotes

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Faces Quotes , Stories Quotes

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Art Quotes , Directors Quotes

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes , Feet Quotes