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Henry Chinaski: [first voiceover] As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Writing can trap you. Some writers tend to write what has pleased their readers in the past. They hear accolades and believe them. There is only one final judge of writing and that is the writer. When he is swayed by the critics, the editors, the publishers, the readers, then he's finished. And, of course, when he's swayed with his fame and his fortune you can float him down the river with the turds.
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Henry Chinaski: [voiceover] I wrote 3 or 4 short stories a week. I kept things in the mail. I imagined how the editors of the New Yorker must be reacting... :"Hey, here's another one from that nut!" I sent most of them to John Martin, whose magazine 'Black Sparrow' I admired.
Debbie DeLisi
Extended Reading
