Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle. W. P. Kinsella More Quotes by W. P. Kinsella More Quotes From W. P. Kinsella 1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio. W. P. Kinsella cathomememories He bats like a lightning rod. W. P. Kinsella lightningbatsbaseball 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. W. P. Kinsella essenceunhappydream Heroes don't need to talk about what they did. W. P. Kinsella heroneeds 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 writingpeopleyears 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. W. P. Kinsella writingpeopleinteresting I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing. W. P. Kinsella nastypaperstuff I don't believe in the afterlife. W. P. Kinsella dont-believeafterlifebelieve It 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 continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. W. P. Kinsella tablesbaseballgames 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. W. P. Kinsella writingwatchesfiction 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. W. P. Kinsella baseballherogames 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. W. P. Kinsella baseballgameshome 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 ropestronglaw The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. W. P. Kinsella baseballsoundbird 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. W. P. Kinsella seeyouenjoymentreading
