“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