#AmericanWriters
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…