Sentence examples for spurred to write from inspiring English sources

I probably wouldn't have been spurred to write it, but that's where the story is.

The author, Jonathan Miles, said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1667, after a controversy erupted between the English and the French over who first invented the procedure, a physician by the name of Jean Denis was spurred to publish the written version of Desgabets's lecture.

It's like a spur to write.

A month later, they gave me the perfect spur to write.

That spurred him to write novels.

Confinement with TB in his 20s introduced him to Dickens and Dostoevsky, Balzac and Plato, and spurred him to write.