incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

I believe I can fairly and accurately say that Strock said a couple of times that when he writes stories, sometimes he's just writing to put supper on the table. I interpreted this at the time as a claim that he believes there's nothing in his stories that he doesn't consciously put there, or I suppose it could be an argument that the only valid measure of whether a reader should be upset by a story's content is whether the author consciously intended the thing that's upsetting the reader.

As I don't consider authorial intent to be the most significant, or even a significant, thing in my critical analysis of literature, I don't agree with either possible meaning of that statement.