Quotable 94 Posted on March 28, 2012March 24, 2012 by bryon I’ll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. … If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. – O. Henry This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International