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. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
[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… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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