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The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
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
Gatsby
Finest
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Great
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
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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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Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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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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Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
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Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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I don't have time to read nonfiction.
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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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