Top 46 W.P. Kinsella Quotes
#1. I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.
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#2. I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
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#3. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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#6. 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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#8. Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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#9. Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session.
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#11. If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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#12. Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
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#13. Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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#14. 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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#15. If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.
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#16. In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world
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#17. You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.
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#18. Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
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#19. Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
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#21. 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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#22. He cranks up his arm, rears back, and throws, and the ball, taking an even more perfect path than it took off the bat, travels in a white arc, seeming to leave behind a line like a streak of forgotten rainbow as it drops over the fence, silent as a star falling into a distant ocean.
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#23. 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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#25. Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
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#26. She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church
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#31. Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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#32. Once you've been touched by the land, the wind never blows so cold again, because your love files the edges off it.
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#33. Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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#34. Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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#40. Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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#41. I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.
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#42. I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. 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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#43. I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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#44. 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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#45. I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.
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#46. I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.
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