Breath Quote by Grace Paley

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

— Isaac Asimov

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.…

— Anne Lamott

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

— John Steinbeck

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

— Kris Kristofferson

Writing is my breathe, so I breathe it everyday. Whatever your breathe is, breathe it deeply and consistently and live wholly.

— Shirley

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

— Paul Auster

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

— Karris Callahan

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our…

— Anais Nin

“i write, because not breathing is not an option.”

— Monice Mitchell Simms

“True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it is quite…

— Milissa R. Bailey

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

— J.M. Powers