Fiction-novel Quote by Elise Stokes

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

— Karris Callahan

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

— Susan Stovall

“BREATHING RELEASES TENSION IN YOGA.”

— DAVE SANTI

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

“writing was like breathing.”

— Haruki Murakami

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”

— Shakirah Bourne

“But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I can't imagine…

— Heather Frost

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

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain.”

— Penny Reid

“If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.”

— Laura Holford-Green

“I think, that when you start doing yoga and you start listening to yourself, you stay in yoga, because it is so deep.”

— Petri Räisänen

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”

— Laura Goode