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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.

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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Funds
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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
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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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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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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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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 can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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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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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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Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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If you build it, he will come.
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He bats like a lightning rod.
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