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
dream daughter musical
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
moments significant significant-moments
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
crossings barriers
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
choices ifs
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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.
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.
dream essence unhappy
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.
sports player games
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
strong law rope
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
nonfiction
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
writing interesting people
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.
paper stuff nasty
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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.
writing years people
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.