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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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It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
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1946, if my memory is correct. Harry The Cat Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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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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My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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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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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
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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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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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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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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 lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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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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He bats like a lightning rod.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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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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