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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
W. P. Kinsella
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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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If you build it, he will come.
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I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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