Quotes by W. P. Kinsella

W. P. Kinsella

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

Childhood

Kind

Parent

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

Littles

Safe

Softball

[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.

Greed

Lists

Real

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.

America

Baseball

Sports

At one time I’d been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can’t even keep track of who plays where these days.

Houston

Play

Track

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

Baseball

Games

Two

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

Basketball

Sports

Two

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn’t understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Description

Grades

Plot

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

Gold

Veins

Voice

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.

Baseball

Firsts

Growing Up

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Afterlife

America

Barriers

Baseball

Basketball

Believe

Bills

Cancer

Childhood

Children

Crossings

Dad

Dark

Daughter

Description

Don't Believe

Dream

Eras

Events

Eye

Fans

Finest

Firsts

Fun

Games

Giving

Gold

Grades

Greed

Growing Up

Hero

Houston

Important

Interesting

Intuition

Kind

Law

League

Lines

Lists

Littles

Lying

Men

Minors

Moments

Moving

Nasty

Needs

Nonfiction

Novel

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Quotes by W. P. Kinsella

W. P. Kinsella

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

[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.

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.

At one time I’d been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can’t even keep track of who plays where these days.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn’t understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

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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