W. P. KinsellaHe bats like a lightning rod.375Hope
W. P. KinsellaOther 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 occupatio… ▶353Humanity
W. P. KinsellaMy 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.292Death
W. P. KinsellaRead! 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 wonde… ▶296ReadingTime
W. P. KinsellaGrowing 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. ✨ W. P. Kinse… ▶243DeathLifeTime
W. P. KinsellaIf you build it, he will come. ✨ Field of Dreams. www.imdb.com. 1989.277Death
W. P. KinsellaSomeone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.191Life
W. P. KinsellaSyzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.258Thought
W. P. KinsellaUse your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.226Humanity
W. P. KinsellaAny game becomes important when you know and love the players. ✨ W.P. Kinsella (2011). Shoeless Joe, p.138, RosettaBooks215LoveReading
W. P. KinsellaIt is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It con… ▶205LifeThought
W. P. KinsellaHardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen. ✨ W. P. Kinsella (1999). Shoeless Joe, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt141LifeTime
W. P. KinsellaBaseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike. ✨ W. P. Kinsella (1983). Shoeless Joe, New York : Ballantine Books165Reading
W. P. KinsellaBaseball 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… ▶178LifePoliticsTruth
W. P. KinsellaHeroes don't need to talk about what they did. ✨ W. P. Kinsella (1999). Shoeless Joe, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt145Philosophy
