W.P. Kinsella Quotes

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

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

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

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

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

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.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.

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.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

If you build it, he will come.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.

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

So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.

I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.