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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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[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
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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] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
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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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I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
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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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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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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
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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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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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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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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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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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Have never been a minor league fan.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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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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