Legend has it that Sylvester Stallone saw the fight – which Wepner lost to a knockout in the final seconds – and was spurred to write Rocky, which won the 1976 best picture Oscar and made a star of the actor.
The author, Jonathan Miles, said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
Birkerts was spurred to write the book after his experience with a class he taught in the fall of 1992, where the students had little appreciation for the literature he had assigned them, stemming from, in his opinion, their inaptitude for the variety of skills involved in deep reading.
I probably wouldn't have been spurred to write it, but that's where the story is.
Mr. Ahsan, the strategic thinker behind the movement to reinstate the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was apparently spurred to write as it became clearer that the major political parties would participate in the elections, despite doubts about their fairness.
Piers Torday, who was spurred to write his first novel when his late father Paul Torday found success as a debut writer in his 50s, has won the Guardian children's fiction prize for his story of a world where animals have been virtually wiped out by a mysterious plague.
Bean said he had been spurred to write the play because of anger over incidents such as the case of Christopher Jefferies, the landlord who, in 2010, was more or less accused by the tabloids of the murder of 25-year-old Joanna Yeates in Bristol.
I'm spurred to write again today because I'm appalled by the many comments it prompted on the Huffington Post and on my Facebook page: "Muslims are evil killers and need to be eradicated," wrote one self-styled American patriot, Micheal Dorrell, on Facebook.
