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
baseball games pitching
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
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.
baseball hero games
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
ifs
If you build it, they will come.
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.
hero needs
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
writing imagination interesting
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
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.
baseball lightning bats
He bats like a lightning rod.
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.