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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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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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[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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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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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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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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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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
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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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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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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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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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