16 Quotes by W.P. Kinsella

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

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.

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

What causes all this?""Pride. What else?