Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being…

I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.

— Joan Didion

“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.”

— Alane Adams

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

— Pablo Neruda

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.”

— Nevea Lane

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

— Anonymous

Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.

— Janet Yellen

“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one…

— Anthony Doerr

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses…

— Barack Obama

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran…

— William H. Calvin

“Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories…

— Julie Kagawa

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

— Scott McCallum

Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could fly like…

— Benny Hinn

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

— Ernest Hemingway