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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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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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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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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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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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[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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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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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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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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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If you build it, he will come.
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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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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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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Have never been a minor league fan.
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