“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.” WritingKindTogetherLiteratureFictionFiguresFootballPlanetsConversationWineScience FictionSatHotelBottlesGet TogetherFiction WritersBalconiesBottles Of WineBlowing Up Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.” PeopleKnowsWritingHomeFieldsFootballBedMy FamilyLettersPrisonDid You KnowFootball FieldBunk Author:Michael Vick
“Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.” WritingSongFootballSeriesStartingBoundariesCrucialTimingStoppingProtectiveGears Author:Christine Lavin
“Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.” MenWayGivingWritingSeemsJobsFootballHe ManEnglandSentencesManagersSoccerPeterChairmanRooney Author:Martin Samuel
“For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.” MenWritingYearsHas BeensCharacterReadingSportsFootballTaughtReadyAuthorityAddConferencesDeference Author:Red Smith
“There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.” WritingLongHas BeensBookStuffTalkingPlayerChildhoodFootballDrawingComicGradesComic BookGave UpFootball PlayerPro FootballSixth Grade Author:Adam Ross
“It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.” WritingDoneUsePassionFoundStrongGivenSimpleActingCareersFootballToolsPlaying Football Author:Maurice Hall
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron
“I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.” MenWritingWatchesFootballDrinkSeasonsBeerBe A ManDisco Author:Frank Zappa
“Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.” PeopleIfsWayWritingDifferentPlayStoriesActingFootballPersonalityDrawsPaintJournalistInterviewsNavigateCarpenter Author:Tom Sizemore
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.” PeopleIfsWritingLawFightingCommunityForgetTeamDesignIdentityFootballColorMembersResourcesDiscriminationAppealsOwnersLgbtDeniedPrivilegedBillionaireAccusationFootball TeamLgbt Community Author:Simon Tam
“Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.” ThinkingWritingMeanFootballRepublicanBaseballBoxingWant MeProfileYou Want MeIf You Want Me Author:Richard Ford
“The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.” WritingGuyEvilDarknessNiceFootballSeparationTortureGood And EvilHopelessnessEnjoyableLight And Darkness Author:Burhan Sonmez