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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
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Scrabble Player
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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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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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
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After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
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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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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 don't believe in the afterlife.
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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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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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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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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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If you build it, he will come.
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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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He bats like a lightning rod.
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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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