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My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

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
Came
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Failed
Main
Income
Movie

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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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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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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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 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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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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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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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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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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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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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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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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
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