Quotes from WP Kinsella
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.
— WP Kinsella
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
— WP Kinsella
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
— WP Kinsella
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
— WP Kinsella
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.
— WP Kinsella
If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.
— WP Kinsella
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
— WP Kinsella
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
— WP Kinsella
In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world
— WP Kinsella
You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.
— WP Kinsella
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
— WP Kinsella
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
— WP Kinsella