W. P. Kinsella Quotes

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

W. P. Kinsella

• Work
• Writing
• Words

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.

W. P. Kinsella

• Reality
• Lost
• Present

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

W. P. Kinsella

• Past
• Present
• Eras

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

W. P. Kinsella

• Time
• Giving
• Lost

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.

W. P. Kinsella

• People
• Work
• Writing

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.

W. P. Kinsella

• Time
• America
• Sports

The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

W. P. Kinsella

• Strong
• Law
• Rope

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.

W. P. Kinsella

• Up
• Time
• Growing

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.

W. P. Kinsella

• People
• Profound
• Sneak In