[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. — 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… — 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