Quotes from W. P. Kinsella

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

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.

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.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

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.

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

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.

At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

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.

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.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

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.

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

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

If you build it, he will come.

A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church