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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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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[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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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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Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
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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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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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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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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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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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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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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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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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