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
lying intuition important
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
sneak-in profound laughing
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
childhood parent kind
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
ifs
If you build it, they will come.
sports baseball america
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
choices ifs
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
softball
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
baseball eye men
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.
work use four
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
moments significant significant-moments
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
baseball life-changing ocean
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
baseball games two
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
player reality greed
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.