"Read! Read! Read! And then read some more.……" — W. P. Kinsella
"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 by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write."
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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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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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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even…
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