Ask me Quote by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

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

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

— Anne Enright

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

— Aleksandar Hemon

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

— Lisa See

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

— Evangeline Lilly

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

— Tanya Saracho