W. P. Kinsella Quotes - Page 3

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• 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, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

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  Writing, Years, People

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 game without music, then they should stay home.

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  Baseball, Home, Games

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• 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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  Writing, People, Interesting

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• 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' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

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  Dream, Essence, Unhappy

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• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

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  Baseball, Bird, Sound

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