O Henry Quotes

• The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

  Chuck Jones

  Wall, Flower, Smell

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• What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'

  Henry Sydnor Harrison

  Writing, Rotten, Toss

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• The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?

  Tony D'Souza

  Writing, Winning, Guy

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• Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

  Will Eisner

  Real, War, Reading

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• El primer relato que escribí fue "Cara de gato", que más tarde fue seleccionado para The O. Henry Collection, así que eso me dio algo de confianza para probar con más. Reunir todas estas historias fue divertido, pero al leerlas me di cuenta de que tengo ciertas preocupaciones mentales que se repiten en mis relatos.

  Arthur Bradford

  Diversión, Intento, Juntos

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