Baseball Quote by Frank Deford

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

— Tibor Fischer

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best…

— Rick Perlstein

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

“I write long pieces because I don’t have time to write short ones..”

— Trey Jones

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as…

— Adam Ross

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something…

— David Grann

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end,…

— Julia Cameron

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell