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By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete. -- Jane Leavy
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate. -- Jane Leavy
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension. -- Joe Posnanski
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them. -- Robert Anasi
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. -- Louis C. K.
I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground. -- Rodman Philbrick
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. -- Mindy Kaling
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys? -- Mike Nichols
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. -- Andrew Sullivan
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney

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