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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.
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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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
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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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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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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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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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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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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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 don't have time to read nonfiction.
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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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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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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] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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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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