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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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If you build it, he will come.
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At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
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Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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