Because Quote by Ludivine Sagnier

It's really special for me just to have that one little moment where I claimed I was the best in the history of swimming.

— Caeleb Dressel

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts,…

— Chevy Stevens

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and…

— Victor Garber

Swimming forced me to deal with the things I wanted to escape. It helped me work through a lot of feelings and frustrations, because…

— Jessica Long

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen…

— Tara Westover

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

— Aaron Peirsol

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world…

— Anonymous

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run…

— Robin Furth

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little…

— Esther Williams

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or…

— Sophie Hannah