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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.
W. P. Kinsella
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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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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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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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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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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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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 don't have time to read nonfiction.
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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If you build it, he will come.
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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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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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