W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBCis a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 May 1935
CountryCanada
writing watches fiction
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.
hero needs
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
paper stuff nasty
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
believe afterlife dont-believe
I don't believe in the afterlife.
writing imagination interesting
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
sports player games
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
baseball growing-up firsts
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 first time.
gold exhausted
Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
hero flood true-hero
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
writing use lines
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.
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
crossings barriers
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
enjoyable
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
nonfiction
I don't have time to read nonfiction.