"Most people write a lot of autobiography, but……" — 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 to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it."
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W. P. Kinsella
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27 Quotes by W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella has 27 quotes on this site.
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Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by…
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My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as…
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If you build it, they will come.
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Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules.…
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Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
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Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or…
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the…
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time…
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than…
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More Autobiography Quotes
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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