All W. P. Kinsella Quotes
- Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. Down
- 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… Apart
- 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… Blanket
- If you build it, they will come. Build
- 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… Baseball
- Heroes don't need to talk about what they did. Hero
- 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,… Accident
- The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. 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… America
- I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing. Down
- I don't believe in the afterlife. Afterlife
- 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. Column
- 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. Baseball
- If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time. Choice
- Read, read, read, read and then read some more. Funny
- 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… Baseball
- 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… Autobiography
- 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'… Adaptation
- Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen. Anybody
- Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can… Alter