Fiction-novel Quote by Dee Doanes

“I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.”

— Karris Callahan

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.”

— Lily Koppel

“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with…

— David Guterson

“I write for the joy of writing. It is the air I breathe and the joy of my life.”

— Charlene Iverson

“You're my everything. You're the reason I breathe, the reason I live. I can't imagine my life without you. I've loved you forever, and…

— Kathryn M. Crane

“I write because I die again and again at the hands of a world that cannot have me or make me fit. I write…

— Jennifer Militello

“I breathe because I must, but I write to take your breath away.”

— J.M. Powers

“Writing and breathing are two things that feel most natural for me.”

— Susan Stovall

“I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”

— Sanober Khan

“Every breath I breathe is because of you. Even when your weren't there to save me, you were my reason to breathe. And for…

— Rebecca Donovan

“You don’t live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own…I…

— Lisa DeJong