To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
