I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. O. Henry More Quotes by O. Henry More Quotes From O. Henry I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer. O. Henry my-life never like life I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty. O. Henry never now reading time