W. P. Kinsella

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King…

— W. P. Kinsella

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

— W. P. Kinsella

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

— W. P. Kinsella

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

— W. P. Kinsella

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph…

— W. P. Kinsella

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

— W. P. Kinsella

Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word…

— W. P. Kinsella

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

— W. P. Kinsella

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying…

— W. P. Kinsella

[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

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

— W. P. Kinsella

Have never been a minor league fan.

— W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, he will come.

— W. P. Kinsella

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

— W. P. Kinsella

He bats like a lightning rod.

— W. P. Kinsella

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

— W. P. Kinsella

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

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

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of…

— W. P. Kinsella

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and…

— W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

— W. P. Kinsella

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America…

— W. P. Kinsella

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold.…

— W. P. Kinsella

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

— W. P. Kinsella

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone…

— W. P. Kinsella