Breathing Quote by Paul Auster

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Isaac Asimov

You have to stop living in order to write.

— Martha Gellhorn

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

— Bei Dao

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

— Ray Bradbury

“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's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— Shirley

I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction.…

— Katie Kitamura