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.
O. HenryThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HenryYes, 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.
O. Henry