{"author":"W.P. Kinsella","author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["sports"],"id":9334,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["baseball","culture","history","immortality","timelessness"],"id":13173,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["envy","spiritual-pride","unity"],"id":152790,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["beliefs","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","inspirational","life","life","living-in-the-present","religion","religion-and-philosophy","shoeless-joe","truth","truth-of-life"],"id":164857,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"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.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["advice","happiness","imagination","imagination","inspirational","inspirational","life","magic","readers","readers-and-writing","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-life","writing-philosophy"],"id":169162,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["advice","advice","contentment","contentment-and-attitude","happiness","happiness-advice","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","life","life-lessons-life-reason","peaceful-life","peacefulness","purpose","purpose-of-life","purposeful-living","serenity","writers","writers-life","writers-world"],"id":185745,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"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.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["discipleship","maturity"],"id":208751,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["connection","discipleship","evangelism","regeneration","relationship"],"id":221352,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["beliefs","believe","inspiration","inspirational","life","life","shoeless-joe"],"id":308221,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"},{"text":"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons].","author":"W.P. Kinsella","tags":["happiness","success"],"id":329662,"author_id":"W.P.+Kinsella"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}