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https://atomicquote.com/author/hg-wells/quote/without-world-unification-the-species-would-destroy-itself-by-the-enlarged-powers-that-had-come-to-it-this-said-the-men-of-science-is-no-theory-no-political-alternative-it-is-a-statement-of-f 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-naomi-remen/quote/medicine-is-as-close-to-love-as-it-is-to-science-and-its-relationships-matter-even-at-the-edge-of-life-itself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/j-assmuth-and-ernest-r-hull/quote/a-simple-statement-of-untruth-in-words-is-called-a-lie-if-a-lie-is-perpetrated-not-merely-by-words-but-by-methodic-action-it-is-called-a-fraud-it-the-action-consists-in-creating-a-false-objec 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-spivak/quote/who-can-forget-the-amazement-of-a-child-balancing-an-adult-on-a-see-saw-simply-by-being-placed-at-the-right-position-how-could-this-be-where-did-all-that-extra-force-come-fromthe-only-wonder- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/muditha-champika/quote/science-is-great-for-us-but-for-someone-who-see-the-human-evaluation-for-more-than-one-million-years-science-is-a-just-a-one-instant-and-younger-than-a-baby 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/muditha-champika/quote/science-is-great-for-us-but-for-someone-who-sees-the-human-evaluation-for-more-than-one-million-years-science-is-just-a-one-instant-and-younger-than-a-baby 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/algis-valiunas/quote/oppenheimer-was-lamenting-the-subservience-of-science-to-innate-human-cruelty-in-an-address-to-the-american-philosophical-society-we-have-made-a-thing-a-most-terrible-weapon-that-has-altered- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/muditha-champika/quote/science-is-great-for-us-but-for-someone-who-sees-the-humans-for-more-than-one-million-years-science-is-just-a-one-instant-like-a-baby-trying-to-talk 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-morley/quote/there-is-no-mistaking-a-real-book-when-one-meets-it-it-is-like-falling-in-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/franz-kafka/quote/many-a-book-is-like-a-key-to-unknown-chambers-within-the-castle-of-ones-own-self 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joshua-slocum/quote/i-had-already-found-that-it-was-not-good-to-be-alone-and-so-made-companionship-with-what-there-was-around-me-sometimes-with-the-universe-and-sometimes-with-my-own-insignificant-self-but-my-bo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/the-best-moments-in-reading-are-when-you-come-across-something-a-thought-a-feeling-a-way-of-looking-at-things-which-you-had-thought-special-and-particular-to-you-now-here-it-is-set-down-by-so 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stendhal/quote/a-good-book-is-an-event-in-my-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/what-she-was-finding-also-was-how-one-book-led-to-another-doors-kept-opening-wherever-she-turned-and-the-days-werent-long-enough-for-the-reading-she-wanted-to-do 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/francois-mauriac/quote/if-you-would-tell-me-the-heart-of-a-man-tell-me-not-what-he-reads-but-what-he-rereads 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/astrid-lindgren/quote/a-childhood-without-books-that-would-be-no-childhood-that-would-be-like-being-shut-out-from-the-enchanted-place-where-you-can-go-and-find-the-rarest-kind-of-joy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jo-walton/quote/it-doesnt-matter-i-have-books-new-books-and-i-can-bear-anything-as-long-as-there-are-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/my-library-is-an-archive-of-longings 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-babington-macaulay/quote/what-a-blessing-it-is-to-love-books-as-i-love-them-to-be-able-to-converse-with-the-dead-and-to-live-amidst-the-unreal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/reading-is-like-thinking-like-praying-like-talking-to-a-friend-like-expressing-your-ideas-like-listening-to-other-peoples-ideas-like-listening-to-music-like-looking-at-the-view-like-taking-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephane-mallarme/quote/everything-in-the-world-exists-in-order-to-end-up-as-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maureen-corrigan/quote/its-not-that-i-dont-like-people-its-just-that-when-im-in-the-company-of-others-even-my-nearest-and-dearest-there-always-comes-a-moment-when-id-rather-be-reading-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wilkie-collins/quote/the-books-the-generous-friends-who-met-me-without-suspicion-the-merciful-masters-who-never-used-me-ill 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-milton/quote/for-books-are-not-absolutely-dead-things-but-do-contain-a-potency-of-life-in-them-to-be-as-active-as-that-soul-was-whose-progeny-they-are-nay-they-do-preserve-as-in-a-vial-the-purest-efficacy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jk-rowling/quote/if-you-dont-like-to-read-you-havent-found-the-right-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/china-mieville/quote/books-are-always-obviously-having-conversations-with-other-books-and-some-times-theyre-amiable-and-sometimes-not 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pseudonymous-bosch/quote/only-bad-books-have-good-endingsif-a-book-is-any-good-its-ending-is-always-bad-because-you-dont-want-the-book-to-end 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jasper-fforde/quote/take-no-heed-of-her-she-reads-a-lot-of-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-ann-shaffer/quote/thats-what-i-love-about-reading-one-tiny-thing-will-interest-you-in-a-book-and-that-tiny-thing-will-lead-you-to-another-book-and-another-bit-there-will-lead-you-onto-a-third-book-its-geometri 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sharon-creech/quote/i-love-the-way-that-each-book-any-book-is-its-own-journey-you-open-it-and-off-you-go 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-scott/quote/i-love-books-i-like-that-the-moment-you-open-one-and-sink-into-it-you-can-escape-from-the-world-into-a-story-thats-way-more-interesting-that-yours-will-ever-be 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-quindlen/quote/in-books-i-have-traveled-not-only-to-other-worlds-but-into-my-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joan-bauer/quote/my-grandma-always-said-that-god-made-libraries-so-that-people-didnt-have-any-excuse-to-be-stupid 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rene-descartes/quote/the-reading-of-all-good-books-is-like-conversation-with-the-finest-men-of-past-centuries 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainer-maria-rilke/quote/ah-how-good-it-is-to-be-among-people-who-are-reading 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/karen-marie-moning/quote/i-love-books-by-the-way-way-more-than-movies-movies-tell-you-what-to-think-a-good-book-lets-you-choose-a-few-thoughts-for-yourself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brandon-sanderson/quote/my-behavior-is-nonetheless-deplorable-unfortunately-im-quite-prone-to-such-bouts-of-deplorability-take-for-instance-my-fondness-for-reading-books-at-the-dinner-table 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/francis-bacon/quote/read-not-to-contradict-and-confute-nor-to-believe-and-take-for-granted-nor-to-find-talk-and-discourse-but-to-weigh-and-consider-some-books-are-to-be-tasted-others-to-be-swallowed-and-some-few 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-waters/quote/being-rich-is-not-about-how-much-money-you-have-or-how-many-homes-you-own-its-the-freedom-to-buy-any-book-you-want-without-looking-at-the-price-and-wondering-if-you-can-afford-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pseudonymous-bosch/quote/generally-speaking-books-dont-cause-much-harm-except-when-you-read-them-that-is-then-they-cause-all-kinds-of-problems 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erin-morgenstern/quote/only-the-ship-is-made-of-books-its-sails-thousands-of-overlapping-pages-and-the-sea-it-floats-upon-is-dark-black-ink 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michel-de-montaigne/quote/when-i-am-attacked-by-gloomy-thoughts-nothing-helps-me-so-much-as-running-to-my-books-they-quickly-absorb-me-and-banish-the-clouds-from-my-mind 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/bea-says-that-the-art-of-reading-is-slowly-dying-that-its-an-intimate-ritual-that-a-book-is-a-mirror-that-offers-us-only-what-we-already-carry-inside-us-that-when-we-read-we-do-it-with-all-ou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-rr-martin/quote/i-have-lived-a-thousand-lives-and-ive-loved-a-thousand-loves-ive-walked-on-distant-worlds-and-seen-the-end-of-time-because-i-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/there-are-many-many-types-of-books-in-the-world-which-makes-good-sense-because-there-are-many-many-types-of-people-and-everybody-wants-to-read-something-different 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-sloan/quote/walking-the-stacks-in-a-library-dragging-your-fingers-across-the-spines-its-hard-not-to-feel-the-presence-of-sleeping-spirits 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/in-the-shop-we-buy-and-sell-them-but-in-truth-books-have-no-owner-every-book-you-see-here-has-been-somebodys-best-friend 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shannon-hale/quote/personally-i-believe-young-adult-to-be-an-arbitrary-title-that-means-the-book-can-be-enjoyed-by-anyonehas-a-main-character-whos-not-quite-an-adultisnt-really-boring 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erika-johansen/quote/even-a-book-can-be-dangerous-in-the-wrong-hands-and-when-that-happens-you-blame-the-hands-but-you-also-read-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/there-are-few-sights-sadder-than-a-ruined-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sydney-smith/quote/no-furniture-is-so-charming-as-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eleanor-brown/quote/she-remembered-one-of-her-boyfriends-asking-offhandedly-how-many-books-she-read-in-a-year-a-few-hundred-she-saidhow-do-you-have-the-time-he-asked-gobsmackedshe-narrowed-her-eyes-and-considere 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jorge-luis-borges/quote/personally-i-am-a-hedonistic-reader-i-have-never-read-a-book-merely-because-it-was-ancient-i-read-books-for-the-aesthetic-emotions-they-offer-me-and-i-ignore-the-commentaries-and-criticism 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/malcolm-x/quote/the-ability-to-read-awoke-inside-of-me-some-long-dormant-craving-to-be-mentally-alive 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joseph-gordon-levitt/quote/his-hands-were-weak-and-shaking-from-carrying-far-too-many-books-from-the-bookshop-it-was-the-best-feeling 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-sloan/quote/after-that-the-book-will-fade-the-way-all-books-fade-in-your-mind-but-i-hope-you-will-remember-thisa-man-walking-fast-down-a-dark-lonely-street-quick-steps-and-hard-breathing-all-wonder-and-n 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oliver-wendell-holmes-sr/quote/what-refuge-is-there-for-the-victim-who-is-oppressed-with-the-feeling-that-there-are-a-thousand-new-books-he-ought-to-read-while-life-is-only-long-enough-for-him-to-attempt-to-read-a-hundred 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cory-doctorow/quote/we-are-the-people-of-the-book-we-love-our-books-we-fill-our-houses-with-books-we-treasure-books-we-inherit-from-our-parents-and-we-cherish-the-idea-of-passing-those-books-on-to-our-children-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jasper-fforde/quote/books-may-look-like-nothing-more-than-words-on-a-page-but-they-are-actually-an-infinitely-complex-imaginotransference-technology-that-translates-odd-inky-squiggles-into-pictures-inside-your-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/muriel-barbery/quote/i-thought-pity-the-poor-in-spirit-who-know-neither-the-enchantment-nor-the-beauty-of-language 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nicola-yoon/quote/sometimes-i-reread-my-favorite-books-from-back-to-front-i-start-with-the-last-chapter-and-read-backward-until-i-get-to-the-beginning-when-you-read-this-way-characters-go-from-hope-to-despair- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/i-was-raised-among-books-making-invisible-friends-in-pages-that-seemed-cast-from-dust-and-whose-smell-i-carry-on-my-hands-to-this-day 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jasper-fforde/quote/governments-and-fashions-come-and-go-but-jane-eyre-is-for-all-time 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wislawa-szymborska/quote/im-old-fashioned-and-think-that-reading-books-is-the-most-glorious-pastime-that-humankind-has-yet-devised 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caroline-kepnes/quote/the-problem-with-books-is-that-they-end 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-schroeder/quote/come-with-me-mom-saysto-the-library-books-and-summertimego-together 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-haddon-spurgeon/quote/give-yourself-unto-reading-the-man-who-never-reads-will-never-be-read-he-who-never-quotes-will-never-be-quoted-he-who-will-not-use-the-thoughts-of-other-mens-brains-proves-that-he-has-no-brai 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-f-kennedy/quote/if-this-nation-is-to-be-wise-as-well-as-strong-if-we-are-to-achieve-our-destiny-then-we-need-more-new-ideas-for-more-wise-men-reading-more-good-books-in-more-public-libraries-these-libraries- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caroline-mytinger/quote/a-womans-destiny-they-say-is-not-fulfilled-until-she-holds-in-her-arms-her-own-little-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jd-salinger/quote/ill-read-my-books-and-ill-drink-coffee-and-ill-listen-to-music-and-ill-bolt-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dorothy-l-sayers/quote/books-are-like-lobster-shells-we-surround-ourselves-with-em-then-we-grow-out-of-em-and-leave-em-behind-as-evidence-of-our-earlier-stages-of-development 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-hill/quote/she-breathed-deeply-of-the-scent-of-decaying-fiction-disintegrating-history-and-forgotten-verse-and-she-observed-for-the-first-time-that-a-room-full-of-books-smelled-like-dessert-a-sweet-snac 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-kostova/quote/when-you-handle-books-all-day-long-every-new-one-is-a-friend-and-a-temptation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elif-shafak/quote/you-see-unlike-in-the-movies-there-is-no-the-end-sign-flashing-at-the-end-of-books-when-ive-read-a-book-i-dont-feel-like-ive-finished-anything-so-i-start-a-new-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-f-kennedy/quote/public-libraries-should-be-open-to-all-except-the-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jacqueline-kelly/quote/one-day-i-would-have-all-the-books-in-the-world-shelves-and-shelves-of-them-i-would-live-my-life-in-a-tower-of-books-i-would-read-all-day-long-and-eat-peaches-and-if-any-young-knights-in-armo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/victoria-schwab/quote/i-mean-most-people-want-to-escape-get-out-of-their-heads-out-of-their-lives-stories-are-the-easiest-way-to-do-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-quindlen/quote/those-of-us-who-read-because-we-love-it-more-than-anything-who-feel-about-bookstores-the-way-some-people-feel-about-jewelers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shannon-hale/quote/she-closed-the-book-and-put-her-cheek-against-it-there-was-still-an-odor-of-a-library-on-it-of-dust-leather-binding-glue-and-old-paper-one-book-carrying-the-smell-of-hundreds 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oliver-goldsmith/quote/i-love-everything-that-is-old-old-friends-old-times-old-manners-old-books-old-wines 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/horace-mann/quote/a-house-without-books-is-like-a-room-without-windows-no-man-has-a-right-to-bring-up-his-children-without-surrounding-them-with-books-if-he-has-the-means-to-buy-them-it-is-a-wrong-to-his-famil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-ruskin/quote/all-books-are-divisible-into-two-classes-the-books-of-the-hours-and-the-books-of-all-time 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-mcgahern/quote/only-then-did-i-wake-out-of-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabrielle-zevin/quote/they-had-only-ever-discussed-books-but-what-in-this-life-is-more-personal-than-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adolf-hitler/quote/reading-is-not-an-end-to-itself-but-a-means-to-an-end 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ruta-sepetys/quote/i-leapt-eagerly-into-books-the-characters-lives-were-so-much-more-interesting-than-the-lonely-heartbeat-of-my-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julia-quinn/quote/i-can-imagine-no-greater-bliss-than-to-lie-about-reading-novels-all-day 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gordon-b-hinckley/quote/there-is-something-wonderful-about-a-book-we-can-pick-it-up-we-can-heft-it-we-can-read-it-we-can-set-it-down-we-can-think-of-what-we-have-read-it-does-something-for-us-we-can-share-great-mind 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/penelope-douglas/quote/experience-is-the-best-teacher 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/donalyn-miller/quote/reading-changes-your-life-reading-unlocks-worlds-unknown-or-forgotten-taking-travelers-around-the-world-and-through-time-reading-helps-you-escape-the-confines-of-school-and-pursue-your-own-ed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/colleen-hoover/quote/im-pretty-sure-my-addiction-to-reading-has-just-reached-a-whole-new-level 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/books-are-not-about-passing-time-theyre-about-other-lives-other-worlds-far-from-wanting-time-to-pass-one-just-wishes-one-had-more-of-it-if-one-wanted-to-pass-the-time-one-could-go-to-new-zeal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alessandro-baricco/quote/its-a-strange-grief-to-die-of-nostalgia-for-something-you-you-will-never-live 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amy-plum/quote/i-spent-the-rest-of-the-day-in-someone-elses-story-the-rare-moments-that-i-put-the-book-down-my-own-pain-returned-in-burning-stabs 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dorothy-parker/quote/i-like-best-to-have-one-book-in-my-hand-and-a-stack-of-others-on-the-floor-beside-me-so-as-to-know-the-supply-of-poppy-and-mandragora-will-not-run-out-before-the-small-hours 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabrielle-zevin/quote/i-can-promise-you-books-and-conversation-and-all-my-heart 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bohumil-hrabal/quote/because-when-i-read-i-dont-really-read-i-pop-a-beautiful-sentence-into-my-mouth-and-suck-it-like-a-fruit-drop-or-i-sip-it-like-a-liqueur-until-the-thought-dissolves-in-me-like-alcohol-infusin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-green/quote/adult-librarians-are-like-lazy-bakers-their-patrons-want-a-jelly-doughnut-so-they-give-them-a-jelly-doughnut-childrens-librarians-are-ambitious-bakers-you-like-the-jelly-doughnut-ill-get-you- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mia-james/quote/break-the-spine-of-one-of-my-books-and-i-break-yours 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/e-lockhart/quote/one-day-she-ventured-to-the-palace-library-and-was-delighted-to-find-what-good-company-books-could-be 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-rothfuss/quote/just-handle-the-books-gently-and-youll-get-along-fine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kate-morton/quote/i-dont-have-many-friends-not-the-living-breathing-sort-at-any-rate-and-i-dont-mean-that-in-a-sad-and-lonely-way-im-just-not-the-type-of-person-who-accumulates-friends-or-enjoys-crowds-im-good 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/colin-firth/quote/when-im-really-into-a-novel-im-seeing-the-world-differently-during-that-time-not-just-for-the-hour-or-so-in-the-day-when-i-get-to-read-im-actually-walking-around-in-a-haze-spellbound-by-the-b 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-e-smith/quote/people-talk-about-books-being-an-escape-but-here-on-the-tube-this-one-feels-more-like-a-lifelinethe-motion-of-the-train-makes-her-head-rattle-but-her-eyes-lock-on-the-words-the-way-a-figure-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ray-bradbury/quote/in-response-to-the-question-what-do-you-think-of-e-books-and-amazons-kindlethose-arent-books-you-cant-hold-a-computer-in-your-hand-like-you-can-a-book-a-computer-does-not-smell-there-are-two- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-quammen/quote/of-course-anyone-who-truly-loves-books-buys-more-of-them-than-he-or-she-can-hope-to-read-in-one-fleeting-lifetime-a-good-book-resting-unopened-in-its-slot-on-a-shelf-full-of-majestic-potentia 2026-10-23T11:50:58+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hanya-yanagihara/quote/what-he-knew-he-knew-from-books-and-books-lied-they-made-things-prettier 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sven-birkerts/quote/i-often-find-that-a-novel-even-a-well-written-and-compelling-novel-can-become-a-blur-to-me-soon-after-ive-finished-reading-it-i-recollect-perfectly-the-feeling-of-reading-it-the-mood-i-occupi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-c-bunce/quote/for-a-moment-i-was-distracted-books-always-did-that-to-me-i-liked-the-creamy-pages-the-smell-of-ink-all-the-secrets-locked-inside 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/orhan-pamuk/quote/sometimes-i-sensed-that-the-books-i-read-in-rapid-succession-had-set-up-some-sort-of-murmur-among-themselves-transforming-my-head-into-an-orchestra-pit-where-different-musical-instruments-sou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/giovanna-fletcher/quote/reading-is-reading-no-matter-what-the-material 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/some-like-to-believe-its-the-book-that-chooses-the-person 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jo-walton/quote/if-you-love-books-enough-books-will-love-you-back 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-keller/quote/literature-is-my-utopia-here-i-am-not-disenfranchised-no-barrier-of-the-senses-shuts-me-out-from-the-sweet-gracious-discourses-of-my-book-friends-they-talk-to-me-without-embarrassment-or-awkw 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/quote/i-only-want-power-so-i-can-get-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelley-armstrong/quote/he-liked-women-with-little-butts-and-big-tits-someone-had-played-with-one-too-many-barbie-dolls-as-a-kid 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-ann-shaffer/quote/i-have-gone-to-this-bookshop-for-years-always-finding-the-one-book-i-wanted-and-then-three-more-i-hadnt-known-i-wanted 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/guy-gavriel-kay/quote/my-youngest-brother-had-a-wonderful-schtick-from-some-time-in-high-school-through-to-graduating-medicine-he-had-a-card-in-his-wallet-that-read-if-i-am-found-with-amnesia-please-give-me-the-fo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-quindlen/quote/how-is-it-that-a-full-two-centuries-after-jane-austen-finished-her-manuscript-we-come-to-the-world-of-pride-and-prejudice-and-find-ourselves-transcending-customs-strictures-time-mores-to-arri 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clifton-fadiman/quote/when-you-re-read-a-classic-you-do-not-see-in-the-book-more-than-you-did-before-you-see-more-in-you-than-there-was-before 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sylvia-brownrigg/quote/i-plan-to-learn-enough-to-read-you-like-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/nina-sankovitch/quote/we-are-what-we-love-to-read-and-when-we-admit-to-loving-a-book-we-admit-that-the-book-represents-some-aspect-of-ourselves-truly-whether-it-is-that-we-are-suckers-for-romance-or-pining-for-adv 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matt-haig/quote/there-is-only-one-genre-in-fiction-the-genre-is-called-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rabih-alameddine/quote/i-long-ago-abandoned-myself-to-a-blind-lust-for-the-written-word-literature-is-my-sandbox-in-it-i-play-build-my-forts-and-castles-spend-glorious-time 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gary-d-schmidt/quote/books-can-ignite-fires-in-your-mind-because-they-carry-ideas-for-kindling-and-art-for-matches 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-queenan/quote/if-you-have-read-6000-books-in-your-lifetime-or-even-600-its-probably-because-at-some-level-you-find-reality-a-bit-of-a-disappointment 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gilbert-highet/quote/these-are-not-books-lumps-of-lifeless-paper-but-minds-alive-on-the-shelves-from-each-of-them-goes-out-its-own-voice-and-just-as-the-touch-of-a-button-on-our-set-will-fill-the-room-with-music- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alice-hoffman/quote/sometimes-they-would-sit-in-the-parlor-together-both-reading-in-entirely-separate-worlds-to-be-sure-but-joined-somehow-when-this-happened-other-people-in-the-family-couldnt-bring-themselves-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-steinbeck/quote/hard-covered-books-break-up-friendships-you-loan-a-hard-covered-book-to-a-friend-and-when-he-doesnt-return-it-you-get-mad-at-him-it-makes-you-mean-and-petty-but-twenty-five-cent-books-are-dif 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-renee-russell/quote/so-many-freaks-and-not-enough-circuses 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-burroughs/quote/i-go-to-books-and-to-nature-as-the-bee-goes-to-a-flower-for-a-nectar-that-i-can-make-into-my-own-honey 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eckhart-tolle/quote/reading-is-my-passion-and-my-escape-since-i-was-5-years-old-overall-children-dont-realize-the-magic-that-can-live-inside-their-own-heads-better-even-then-any-movie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marissa-meyer/quote/but-her-grandmother-had-never-suggested-she-could-think-the-same-of-scarlet-youll-be-fine-she-always-said-after-a-skinned-knee-after-a-broken-arm-after-her-first-youthfull-heartbreak-youll-be 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-ann-shaffer/quote/do-you-arrange-your-books-alphabetically-i-hope-not 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pseudonymous-bosch/quote/it-was-like-walking-into-a-treasure-trove-of-books-hoarded-by-pirate-librarians 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scarlett-thomas/quote/real-life-is-physical-give-me-books-instead-give-me-the-invisibility-of-the-contents-of-books-the-thoughts-the-ideas-the-images-let-me-become-part-of-a-book-an-intertextual-being-a-book-cybor 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-lynch/quote/worst-of-all-the-inner-vault-is-guarded-by-a-live-dragon-attended-by-fifty-naked-women-armed-with-poisoned-spears-each-of-them-sworn-to-die-in-requins-service-all-redheads-youre-just-making-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/arthur-conan-doyle/quote/i-care-not-how-humble-your-bookshelf-may-be-or-how-lonely-the-room-which-it-adorns-close-the-door-of-that-room-behind-you-shut-off-with-it-all-the-cares-of-the-outer-world-plunge-back-into-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-waters/quote/what-i-like-best-is-staying-home-and-reading-being-rich-is-not-about-how-many-homes-you-own-its-the-freedom-to-pick-up-any-book-you-want-without-looking-at-the-price-and-wondering-whether-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/zoe-marriott/quote/i-truly-believe-that-if-you-have-more-friends-than-books-you-have-too-many-friends-or-not-enough-books-probably-both 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cesare-pavese/quote/the-words-that-strike-us-are-those-that-awake-an-echo-in-a-zone-we-have-already-made-our-own-the-place-where-we-live-and-the-vibration-enables-us-to-find-fresh-starting-points-within-ourselve 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nova-ren-suma/quote/our-private-tastes-in-books-showed-a-hint-of-our-secret-selves 2026-10-23T17:33:09+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-bernhard/quote/the-only-friends-i-have-are-the-dead-who-have-bequeathed-their-writings-to-me-i-have-no-others 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-pratchett/quote/there-are-many-horrible-sights-in-the-multiverse-somehow-though-to-a-soul-attuned-to-the-subtle-rhythms-of-a-library-there-are-few-worse-sights-than-a-hole-where-a-book-ought-to-besomeone-had 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-macdonald/quote/as-you-grow-ready-for-it-somewhere-or-other-you-will-find-what-is-needful-for-you-in-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chris-wooding/quote/the-books-were-legends-and-tales-stories-from-all-over-the-realm-these-she-had-devoured-voraciously-so-voraciously-in-fact-that-she-started-to-become-fatigued-by-them-it-was-possible-to-have- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ian-falconer/quote/only-five-books-tonight-mommy-she-saysno-olivia-just-onehow-about-fourtwothreeoh-all-right-three-but-thats-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keith-donohue/quote/write-it-down-boy-if-you-come-across-a-passage-in-your-reading-that-youd-like-to-remember-write-it-down-in-your-little-book-then-you-can-read-it-again-memorize-it-and-have-it-whenever-you-wis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/morrissey/quote/i-hate-most-people-and-i-dont-want-to-its-an-awful-way-to-be-but-the-human-race-gives-me-no-comfort-i-find-myself-turning-to-books-and-films-for-comfort-still-its-repulsive-because-ones-life- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/have-books-happened-to-you-unless-your-answer-to-that-question-is-yes-im-unsure-how-to-talk-to-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bradley/quote/books-are-like-oxygen-to-a-deep-sea-diver-she-had-once-said-take-them-away-and-you-might-as-well-begin-counting-the-bubbles 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/russell-t-davies/quote/something-we-once-loved-and-love-now-in-the-shape-of-a-book-maybe-ebooks-are-going-to-take-over-one-day-but-not-until-those-whizzkids-in-silicon-valley-invent-a-way-to-bend-the-corners-fold-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-goolrick/quote/learning-became-her-she-loved-the-smell-of-the-book-from-the-shelves-the-type-on-the-pages-the-sense-that-the-world-was-an-infinite-but-knowable-place-every-fact-she-learned-seemed-to-open-an 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rebecca-mead/quote/reading-is-sometimes-thought-of-as-a-form-of-escapism-and-its-a-common-turn-of-phrase-to-speak-of-getting-lost-in-a-book-but-a-book-can-also-be-where-one-finds-oneself-and-when-a-reader-is-gr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maggie-stiefvater/quote/i-smiled-at-the-stacks-inhaling-again-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pages-that-had-never-been-turned-waiting-for-me-the-shelves-were-a-warm-blond-wood-piled-with-spines-of-every-color-staff-picks- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/all-his-life-klaus-had-believed-that-if-you-read-enough-books-you-could-solve-any-problem-but-now-he-wasnt-so-sure 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/april-genevieve-tucholke/quote/revenge-justice-love-they-are-the-three-stories-that-all-other-stories-are-made-up-of-its-the-trifecta 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-hillenbrand/quote/he-had-no-money-and-no-home-he-lived-entirely-on-the-road-of-the-racing-circuit-sleeping-in-empty-stalls-carrying-with-him-only-a-saddle-his-rosary-and-his-booksthe-books-were-the-closest-thi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/i-will-not-allow-books-to-prove-any-thingbut-how-shall-we-prove-any-thingwe-never-shall 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jen-campbell/quote/customer-if-i-were-to-say-meet-the-love-of-my-life-in-this-bookshop-what-section-do-you-think-they-would-be-standing-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-bukowski/quote/great-books-are-the-ones-we-need 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-rothfuss/quote/there-were-two-sets-of-double-doors-leading-out-of-the-antechamber-one-marked-stacks-and-the-other-tomes-not-knowing-the-difference-between-the-two-i-headed-to-the-ones-labeled-stacks-that-wa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edgar-a-guest/quote/a-book-now-said-a-good-book-unto-me-open-my-pages-and-you-shall-seejewels-of-wisdom-and-treasures-finegold-and-silver-in-every-lineand-you-may-claim-them-if-you-but-willopen-my-pages-and-take 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jessica-zafra/quote/thats-the-thing-about-a-great-book-every-time-you-read-it-its-different-because-youre-different-youve-changed-since-the-last-time-you-picked-it-up-things-have-happened-to-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lewis-buzbee/quote/for-the-last-several-days-ive-had-the-sudden-and-general-urge-to-buy-a-new-book-ive-stopped-off-at-a-few-bookstores-around-the-city-and-while-ive-looked-at-hundreds-and-hundreds-of-books-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kellie-elmore/quote/maybe-heaven-will-be-a-library-and-then-i-might-get-to-finish-my-to-read-list 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marissa-meyer/quote/do-you-think-she-is-her-voice-trembled-her-heart-throbbed-as-she-waited-for-him-to-answer-you-think-theyve-killed-herevery-moment-wrapped-around-scarlets-neck-strangling-her-until-the-only-po 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelly-link/quote/remember-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do-it-never-hurts-to-play-scrabble-its-like-reading-the-i-ching-or-tea-leaves 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jay-kristoff/quote/the-books-we-love-they-love-us-back-and-just-as-we-mark-our-places-in-the-pages-those-pages-leave-their-marks-on-us 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-mccracken/quote/books-remember-all-the-things-you-cannot-contain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adriana-trigiani/quote/people-have-often-told-me-that-one-of-their-strongest-childhood-memories-is-the-scent-of-their-grandmothers-house-i-never-knew-my-grandmothers-but-i-could-always-count-of-the-bookmobile 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stanislaw-lem/quote/no-one-reads-if-someone-does-read-he-doesnt-understand-if-he-understands-he-immediately-forgets 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-hunter/quote/far-be-it-from-me-to-keep-a-woman-from-her-book-that-could-become-dangerous 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roman-payne/quote/i-regained-my-soul-through-literature-after-those-times-id-lost-it-to-wild-eyed-gypsy-girls-on-the-european-streets 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-miller/quote/buying-a-book-is-not-about-obtaining-a-possession-but-about-securing-a-portal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/after-a-while-it-occurred-to-me-that-between-the-covers-of-each-of-those-books-lay-a-boundless-universe-waiting-to-be-discovered-while-beyond-those-walls-in-the-outside-world-people-allowed-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cs-lewis/quote/the-man-who-is-contented-to-be-only-himself-and-therefore-less-a-self-is-in-prison-my-own-eyes-are-not-enough-for-me-i-will-see-through-those-of-others-reality-even-seen-through-the-eyes-of-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-linklater/quote/i-think-im-always-so-much-more-happy-with-books-and-movies-and-stuff-i-think-i-get-more-excited-about-well-done-representations-of-life-than-life-itself-celine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/as-i-walked-in-the-dark-through-the-tunnels-and-tunnels-of-books-i-could-not-help-being-overcome-by-a-sense-of-sadness-i-couldnt-help-thinking-that-if-i-by-pure-chance-had-found-a-whole-unive 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/quote/by-reading-the-writings-of-the-most-interesting-minds-in-history-we-meditate-with-our-own-minds-and-theirs-as-well-this-is-to-me-is-a-miracle 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/klaus-sighed-and-opened-a-book-and-as-at-so-many-other-times-when-the-middle-baudelaire-child-did-not-want-to-think-about-his-circumstances-he-began-to-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-kadish/quote/books-people-have-no-idea-how-beautiful-books-are-how-they-taste-on-your-fingers-how-bright-everything-is-when-you-light-it-with-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chloe-thurlow/quote/when-you-lose-yourself-in-a-book-the-hours-grow-wings-and-fly 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/victor-nell/quote/books-are-all-the-dreams-we-would-most-like-to-have-and-like-dreams-they-have-the-power-to-change-consciousness 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marc-acito/quote/so-i-kept-reading-just-to-stay-alive-in-fact-id-read-two-or-three-books-at-the-same-time-so-i-wouldnt-finish-one-without-being-in-the-middle-of-another-anything-to-stop-me-from-falling-into-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabrielle-zevin/quote/i-do-not-like-postmodernism-postapocalyptic-settings-postmortem-narrators-or-magic-realism-i-rarely-respond-to-supposedly-clever-formal-devices-multiple-fonts-pictures-where-they-shouldnt-be- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eilis-oneal/quote/how-can-you-be-nervous-dont-you-see-were-in-a-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/a-edward-newton/quote/who-was-it-who-said-i-hold-the-buying-of-more-books-than-one-can-peradventure-read-as-nothing-less-than-the-souls-reaching-towards-infinity-which-is-the-only-thing-that-raises-us-above-the-be 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cynthia-hand/quote/he-wanted-to-tell-her-shed-have-more-room-if-shed-just-get-rid-of-her-books-but-he-supposed-that-in-her-case-it-would-be-like-telling-a-mother-shed-have-more-room-if-she-threw-out-her-childre 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dylan-thomas/quote/and-when-the-firemen-turned-off-the-hose-and-were-standing-in-the-wet-smoky-room-jims-aunt-miss-prothero-came-downstairs-and-peered-in-at-them-jim-and-i-waited-very-quietly-to-hear-what-she-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steve-maraboli/quote/if-the-self-help-books-worked-it-would-be-a-shrinking-industry-not-a-growing-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/russell-brand/quote/and-while-were-on-the-subject-of-ducks-which-we-plainly-are-the-story-the-ugly-duckling-ought-be-banned-as-the-central-character-wasnt-a-duckling-or-he-wouldnt-have-grown-up-into-a-swan-he-wa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emma-clayton/quote/helens-books-were-her-friends-the-kind-you-invite-for-dinner-in-the-middle-of-winter-shed-told-him-and-spend-all-night-talking-and-never-go-to-bed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainer-maria-rilke/quote/there-are-a-large-number-of-people-in-the-room-but-one-is-unaware-of-them-they-are-in-the-books-at-times-they-move-among-the-pages-like-sleepers-turning-over-between-two-dreams-ah-how-good-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-morley/quote/printers-ink-has-been-running-a-race-against-gunpowder-these-many-many-years-ink-is-handicapped-in-a-way-because-you-can-blow-up-a-man-with-gunpowder-in-half-a-second-while-it-may-take-twenty 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leigh-bardugo/quote/i-need-someone-who-can-be-invisible-who-can-become-a-ghost-do-you-think-you-can-do-thatim-already-a-ghost-she-thought-i-died-in-the-hold-of-a-slaver-shipi-think-so 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-simon/quote/we-note-our-place-with-bookmarkersthat-measure-what-weve-lost 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bich-minh-nguyen/quote/i-read-to-be-alone-i-read-so-as-not-to-be-alone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-millhauser/quote/but-what-struck-me-was-the-book-madness-of-the-place-books-lay-scattered-across-the-unmade-bed-and-the-top-of-a-battered-looking-desk-books-stood-in-knee-high-piles-on-the-floor-books-were-cr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-connolly/quote/these-stories-were-very-old-as-old-as-people-and-they-had-survived-because-they-were-very-powerful-indeed-they-were-the-tales-that-echoed-in-the-head-long-after-the-books-that-contained-them- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kate-morton/quote/my-fingers-positively-itched-to-drift-at-length-along-their-spines-to-arrive-at-one-whose-lure-i-could-not-pass-to-pluck-it-down-to-inch-it-open-then-to-close-my-eyes-and-inhale-the-soul-spar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/katherine-paterson/quote/the-wonderful-thing-about-books-is-that-they-allow-us-to-enter-imaginatively-into-someone-elses-life-and-when-we-do-that-we-learn-to-sympathize-with-other-people-but-the-real-surprise-is-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-simonson/quote/i-tell-myself-it-does-not-matter-what-one-reads-favorite-authors-particular-themes-as-long-as-we-read-something-it-is-not-even-important-to-own-the-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/as-it-unfolded-the-structure-of-the-story-began-to-remind-me-of-one-of-those-russian-dolls-that-contain-innumerable-ever-smaller-dolls-within-step-by-step-the-narrative-split-into-a-thousand- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-ness/quote/know-yourself-and-go-in-swinging-if-it-hurts-when-you-hit-it-might-be-real-too 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-amy-schlitz/quote/but-i-think-the-most-important-thing-those-books-gave-me-was-a-kind-of-faith-my-books-promised-me-that-life-wasnt-just-made-up-of-workaday-tasks-and-prosaic-things-the-world-is-bigger-and-mor 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/karen-marie-moning/quote/i-love-books-theyre-in-my-blood 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-jensen-walker/quote/how-do-you-explain-to-a-nonreader-that-books-arent-just-things-but-treasured-friends-companions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dh-lawrence/quote/we-are-so-overwhelmed-with-quantities-of-books-that-we-hardly-realize-any-more-that-a-book-can-be-valuable-valuable-like-a-jewel-or-a-lovely-picture-into-which-you-can-look-deeper-and-deeper- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/while-we-are-looking-for-the-antidote-or-the-medicine-to-cure-us-that-is-the-new-which-can-only-be-found-by-plunging-deep-into-the-unknown-we-have-to-go-on-exploring-sex-books-and-travel-alth 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephane-mallarme/quote/the-world-exists-to-end-up-in-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aberjhani/quote/in-your-hands-winteris-a-book-with-cloud-pagesthat-snow-pearls-of-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deb-caletti/quote/if-time-heals-all-wounds-and-a-book-can-hold-a-persons-entire-life-then-you-can-speed-up-the-process-with-a-pulp-time-warp 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ben-jacobs/quote/the-books-we-read-help-to-shape-who-we-are-reading-offers-us-as-children-our-first-independence-allowing-us-to-travel-far-beyond-the-confines-of-our-immediate-world-books-introduce-us-to-grea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rita-mae-brown/quote/oh-well-maybe-the-only-beauty-left-in-cities-is-in-the-oil-slicks-on-the-road-and-maybe-there-isnt-any-beauty-left-in-the-people-who-live-in-these-places 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-acampora/quote/shelving-books-incorrectly-is-as-good-as-stealing-them-its-almost-worse 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helene-hanff/quote/i-love-inscriptions-on-flyleaves-and-notes-in-margins-i-like-the-comradely-sense-of-turning-pages-someone-else-turned-and-reading-passages-someone-long-gone-has-called-my-attention-to 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helene-hanff/quote/standing-there-staring-at-the-long-shelves-crammed-with-books-i-felt-myself-relax-and-was-suddenly-at-peace 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wally-lamb/quote/that-books-were-mirrors-reflective-in-sometimes-unpredictable-ways 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eleanor-brown/quote/we-were-never-organized-readers-who-would-see-a-book-through-to-its-end-in-any-sory-of-logical-order-we-weave-in-and-out-of-words-like-tourists-on-a-hop-on-hop-off-bus-tour-put-a-book-down-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-keller/quote/i-do-not-mean-to-object-to-a-thorough-knowledge-of-the-famous-works-we-read-i-object-only-to-the-interminable-comments-and-bewildering-criticisms-that-teach-but-one-thing-there-are-as-many-op 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-orwell/quote/there-are-books-that-one-reads-over-and-over-again-books-that-become-part-of-the-furniture-of-ones-mind-and-alter-ones-whole-attitude-to-life-books-that-one-dips-into-but-never-reads-through- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-pogue-harrison/quote/if-nothing-else-a-house-is-a-place-to-keep-books-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/quote/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but-they-are-imprisoned-by-an-enchanter-in-these-paper-and-leathern-boxes-and-though-they-know-us-and-have-been-waiting-two-ten 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maud-hart-lovelace/quote/betsy-returned-to-her-chair-took-off-her-coat-and-hat-opened-her-book-and-forgot-the-world-again 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/he-was-a-very-private-person-and-sometimes-it-seemed-to-me-that-he-was-no-longer-interested-in-the-world-or-in-other-people-i-got-the-feeling-that-julian-was-living-in-the-past-locked-in-his- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-whitcomb/quote/he-kissed-me-for-a-long-moment-holding-my-shoulders-perhaps-to-keep-me-from-pressing-my-whole-body-against-his-then-he-tried-to-lift-my-bagmy-god-he-said-what-happenedi-found-out-one-may-chec 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rikki-ducornet/quote/what-are-books-but-tangible-dreams-what-is-reading-if-it-is-not-dreaming-the-best-books-cause-us-to-dream-the-rest-are-not-worth-reading 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oliver-goldsmith/quote/the-first-time-i-read-an-excellent-book-it-is-to-me-just-as-if-i-had-gained-a-new-friend-when-i-read-a-book-over-i-have-perused-before-it-resembles-the-meeting-with-an-old-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/friedrich-nietzsche/quote/books-and-drafts-mean-something-quite-different-for-different-thinkers-one-collects-in-a-book-the-lights-he-was-able-to-steal-and-carry-home-swiftly-out-of-the-rays-of-some-insight-that-sudde 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nichole-chase/quote/i-might-love-my-e-reader-but-id-never-pass-up-the-chance-to-browse-real-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eugene-field/quote/all-good-and-true-book-lovers-practice-the-pleasing-and-improving-avocation-of-reading-in-bed-no-book-can-be-appreciated-until-it-has-been-slept-with-and-dreamed-over 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eleanor-brown/quote/she-never-managed-to-find-herself-in-these-books-no-matter-how-hard-she-tried-exhuming-traits-from-between-the-pages-and-donning-them-for-an-hour-a-day-a-week-we-think-in-some-ways-we-have-al 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-keller/quote/in-a-word-literature-is-my-utopia-here-i-am-not-disfranchised-no-barrier-of-the-senses-shuts-me-out-from-the-sweet-gracious-discourse-of-my-book-friends-they-talk-to-me-without-embarrassment- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-miller/quote/a-long-time-ago-i-opened-a-book-and-this-is-what-i-found-inside-a-whole-new-world-it-isnt-the-world-i-live-in-although-sometimes-it-looks-a-lot-like-it-sometimes-though-it-feels-closest-to-my 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-gaiman/quote/i-think-that-pretty-much-every-form-of-fiction-id-include-fantasy-obviously-can-actually-be-a-real-escape-from-places-where-you-feel-bad-and-from-bad-places-it-can-be-a-safe-place-you-go-like 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/allie-burke/quote/she-was-addicted-to-literature-like-some-people-were-addicted-to-heroin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keith-miller/quote/stories-are-life-protested-pico-without-them-books-would-be-only-paper-and-ink-with-them-they-breathe-the-reader-is-drawn-in-the-stories-become-him 2026-10-23T15:14:24+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/de-stevenson/quote/some-people-might-think-our-lives-dull-and-uneventful-but-it-does-not-seem-so-to-us-it-is-not-travel-and-adventure-that-make-a-full-life-there-are-adventures-of-the-spirit-and-one-can-travel- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-whitcomb/quote/books-are-boring-james-said-as-he-wrotethey-line-the-walls-like-a-thousand-leather-doorways-to-be-opened-into-worlds-unknown-i-offered 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-green/quote/it-doesnt-matter-how-long-weve-used-something-all-that-matters-is-how-awesome-the-thing-replacing-it-is-mp3s-and-automobiles-happen-to-be-really-really-awesome-whereas-ebooks-at-least-so-far- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-burton/quote/what-a-glut-of-books-who-can-read-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcel-proust/quote/in-reading-friendship-is-restored-immediately-to-its-original-purity-with-books-there-is-no-forced-sociability-if-we-pass-the-evening-with-those-friends-books-its-because-we-really-want-to-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephanie-pearl-mcphee/quote/when-confronted-with-a-birthday-in-a-week-i-will-remember-that-a-book-can-be-a-really-good-present-too 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/quote/to-limit-the-press-is-to-insult-a-nation-to-prohibit-reading-of-certain-books-is-to-declare-the-inhabitants-to-be-either-fools-or-slaves-such-a-prohibition-ought-to-fill-them-with-disdain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/this-place-is-a-mystery-a-sanctuary-every-book-every-volume-you-see-has-a-soul-the-soul-of-the-person-who-wrote-it-the-soul-of-those-who-read-it-lived-it-dreamed-with-it-every-time-a-book-cha 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/junot-diaz/quote/i-certainly-couldnt-have-survived-my-childhood-without-books-all-that-deprivation-and-pain-abuse-broken-home-a-runaway-sister-a-brother-with-cancer-the-books-allowed-me-to-withstand-they-sust 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ziggy-marley/quote/free-spirits-have-to-soar-true-religion 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/angela-korrati/quote/geeks-are-not-the-worlds-rowdiest-people-were-quiet-and-introspective-and-usually-more-comfortable-communing-with-our-keyboards-or-a-good-book-than-each-other-our-idea-of-how-to-paint-theemer 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roger-ebert/quote/an-honest-bookstore-would-post-the-following-sign-above-its-self-help-section-for-true-self-help-please-visit-our-philosophy-literature-history-and-science-sections-find-yourself-a-good-book- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eleanor-brown/quote/instead-wed-do-what-we-always-did-the-only-thing-wed-ever-been-dependably-stellar-at-wed-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/as-i-walked-i-ran-my-fingers-along-the-spines-of-hundreds-of-books-i-let-myself-be-imbued-with-the-smell-with-the-light-that-filtered-through-the-cracks-or-from-the-glass-lanterns-embedded-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/books-hold-no-passports-theres-only-one-true-literary-tradition-the-human 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-d-sass/quote/i-would-rather-read-a-mediocre-book-than-waste-time-sitting-around-with-people-making-small-talk 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephen-king/quote/a-book-is-like-a-pump-it-gives-nothing-unless-first-you-give-to-it-you-prime-a-pump-with-your-own-water-you-work-the-handle-with-your-own-strength-you-do-this-because-you-expect-to-get-back-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andre-gide/quote/no-encounter-occured-that-day-and-i-was-glad-of-it-i-took-out-of-my-pocket-a-little-homer-i-had-not-opened-since-leaving-marseilles-reread-three-lines-of-the-odyssey-learned-them-by-heart-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shannon-hale/quote/but-how-do-you-know-if-an-ending-is-truly-good-for-the-characters-unless-youve-traveled-with-them-through-every-page 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-ondaatje/quote/this-was-the-time-in-her-life-that-she-fell-upon-books-as-the-only-door-out-of-her-cell-they-became-half-her-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richelle-mead/quote/the-books-always-better-than-the-movie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jorge-luis-borges/quote/of-all-mans-instruments-the-most-wondrous-no-doubt-is-the-book-the-other-instruments-are-extensions-of-his-body-the-microscope-the-telescope-are-extensions-of-his-sight-the-telephone-is-the-e 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julie-kagawa/quote/i-recognized-it-instantly-it-was-a-made-up-story-a-fantasy-the-tale-of-four-kids-who-went-through-a-magic-wardrobe-and-found-themselves-in-a-strange-new-world-id-read-it-more-times-than-i-cou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wb-yeats/quote/what-is-literature-but-the-expression-of-moods-by-the-vehicle-of-symbol-and-incident-and-are-there-not-moods-which-need-heaven-hell-purgatory-and-faeryland-for-their-expression-no-less-than-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/django-wexler/quote/have-you-never-picked-up-a-book-youve-read-before-and-found-it-speaks-to-you-in-a-new-way 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lorna-sage/quote/more-and-more-i-lived-in-books-they-were-my-comfort-refuge-addiction-compensation-for-the-humiliations-that-attended-contact-with-the-world-outside 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/quote/reading-a-novel-war-and-peace-for-example-is-no-catnap-because-a-novel-is-so-long-reading-one-is-like-being-married-forever-to-somebody-nobody-knows-or-cares-about 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pai-kit-fai/quote/take-what-interests-and-knowledge-you-can-from-books-but-do-not-let-them-replace-words-and-thoughts-of-your-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/danielle-torella/quote/i-shake-my-head-not-my-kind-of-scene-id-rather-be-home-with-my-book-boyfriend-ill-never-get-what-you-book-sluts-get-out-of-a-fictional-man-he-shakes-his-head-boys-in-books-are-better 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eileen-favorite/quote/in-fiction-beauty-was-run-of-the-mill 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michelle-moran/quote/even-prisoners-can-escape-if-they-have-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/al-pacino/quote/youll-never-be-alone-if-youve-got-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/barbara-michaels/quote/she-loved-the-smell-of-books-the-feel-of-books-the-look-of-them-on-the-shelf 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/quote/finally-i-couldnt-imagine-how-i-could-live-without-books-and-i-stopped-dreaming-about-marrying-that-chinese-prince 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-purdie-salas/quote/and-she-is-the-readerwho-browses-the-shelfand-looks-for-new-worldsbut-finds-herself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-miller/quote/do-the-children-who-prefer-books-set-in-the-real-ordinary-workaday-world-ever-read-as-obsessively-as-those-who-would-much-rather-be-transported-into-other-worlds-entirely 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ismail-kadare/quote/i-couldnt-get-to-sleep-the-book-lay-nearby-a-thin-object-on-the-divan-so-strange-between-two-cardboard-covers-were-noises-doors-howls-horses-people-all-side-by-side-pressed-tightly-against-on 2026-10-23T09:12:49+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jodi-meadows/quote/before-i-had-a-chance-to-feel-too-sorry-for-myself-i-turned-toward-the-front-of-the-cabin-and-found-the-bookcases-carved-right-into-the-wall-hundreds-of-leather-bound-volumes-rested-in-dim-al 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mildred-d-taylor/quote/poor-christopher-john-had-fallen-into-the-hands-of-miss-daisy-crocker-i-greatly-sympathized-him-but-as-in-everything-else-christopher-john-tried-to-see-the-bright-side-in-having-to-face-such- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alice-steinbach/quote/it-is-one-of-the-strongest-bonds-i-think-that-can-spring-up-between-people-sharing-a-passion-for-certain-books-and-their-authors 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emlyn-chand/quote/note-to-self-dont-throw-things-at-girls 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/virginia-woolf/quote/the-art-of-writing-has-for-backbone-some-fierce-attachment-to-an-idea-it-is-on-the-back-of-an-idea-something-believed-in-with-conviction-or-seen-with-precision-and-thus-compelling-words-to-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kristin-cashore/quote/i-dont-understand-your-book-isnt-every-book-a-book-of-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/washington-irving/quote/sometimes-he-spent-hours-together-in-the-great-libraries-of-paris-those-catacombs-of-departed-authors-rummaging-among-their-hoards-of-dusty-and-obsolete-works-in-quest-of-food-for-his-unhealt 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/trenton-lee-stewart/quote/in-the-candles-flickering-light-the-librarys-thousands-of-books-emerged-from-the-shadows-and-for-a-moment-nicholas-could-not-help-admiring-them-again-during-free-time-he-had-almost-never-look 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-queenan/quote/because-to-the-poor-books-are-not-diversions-book-are-siege-weapons 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/inglath-cooper/quote/the-library-had-become-her-solace-her-refugebooks-did-not-question-or-judge-they-made-safe-companions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-rice/quote/what-is-written-beneath-this-heavy-handsome-book-cover-will-count-so-sayeth-this-cover 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-paine/quote/each-of-those-churches-shows-certain-books-which-they-call-revelation-or-the-word-of-god-the-jews-say-that-their-word-of-god-was-given-by-god-to-moses-face-to-face-the-christians-say-that-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patty-wiseman/quote/on-getting-lost-in-a-book-set-adrifta-life-unknownconnections-formlove-is-sewn 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcus-aurelius/quote/give-up-your-thirst-for-books-so-that-you-do-not-die-a-grouch 2026-10-23T15:13:06+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelli-jae-baeli/quote/im-an-open-book-but-some-of-the-pages-are-stuck-together 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sofia-samatar/quote/but-preserve-your-mistrust-of-the-page-for-a-book-is-a-fortress-a-place-of-weeping-the-key-to-a-desert-a-river-that-has-no-bridge-a-garden-of-spears 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/markus-zusak/quote/i-guess-thats-the-beauty-of-books-when-they-finish-they-dont-really-finish 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-finch/quote/he-often-envied-people-who-hadnt-read-his-favourite-books-they-had-such-happiness-before-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emily-wing-smith/quote/but-i-loved-the-library-simply-because-it-was-a-library-i-love-libraries-i-like-reading-but-i-love-libraries-being-surrounded-by-books-makes-me-feel-safe-the-way-some-people-need-trees-or-mou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michele-bardsley/quote/i-had-always-turned-to-books-to-knowledge-to-help-me-get-through-everything-in-my-life-andsometimes-to-escape-it-but-grief-was-a-journey-through-a-forest-of-razor-blades-i-walked-through-ever 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siri-hustvedt/quote/a-book-is-a-collaboration-between-the-one-who-reads-and-what-is-read-and-at-its-best-that-coming-together-is-a-love-story-like-any-other 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clifton-fadiman/quote/books-act-like-a-developing-fluid-on-film-that-is-they-bring-into-consciousness-what-you-didnt-know-you-knew 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dave-eggers/quote/then-he-got-more-books-he-saved-all-the-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maggie-stiefvater/quote/there-was-nothing-particularly-special-about-her-except-that-she-was-good-with-numbers-and-very-good-at-lying-and-she-made-her-home-in-between-the-pages-of-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lynne-sharon-schwartz/quote/i-have-done-what-people-do-my-life-makes-a-reasonable-showing-can-i-go-back-to-my-books-now 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/xinran/quote/the-more-you-read-the-more-you-want-to-know-and-so-the-more-questions-you-have 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-miller/quote/adventure-then-is-what-might-otherwise-be-called-hardship-if-it-were-attempted-in-a-different-spirit-turning-a-difficult-task-or-a-perilous-journey-into-an-adventure-is-largely-a-matter-of-te 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/what-are-american-dry-goods-asked-the-duchess-raising-her-large-hands-in-wonder-and-accentuating-the-verbamerican-novels-answered-lord-henry 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-donnelly/quote/i-could-almost-hear-the-characters-inside-murmuring-and-jostling-impatient-for-me-to-open-the-cover-and-let-them-out 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-maria-dominguez/quote/for-me-the-greatest-joy-is-to-be-able-to-submerge-myself-for-a-few-hours-every-day-in-a-human-time-that-otherwise-would-be-alien-to-me-a-lifetime-is-not-enough 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alberto-manguel/quote/we-read-to-understand-our-intuition-of-the-world-to-discover-that-someone-a-thousand-miles-and-years-away-has-put-into-words-our-most-intimate-desires-and-our-most-secret-fears-reading-is-a-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eileen-favorite/quote/for-a-bookworm-like-mother-a-bronte-novel-sister-was-better-than-a-biological-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sandor-marai/quote/you-only-benefit-from-books-if-you-can-give-something-back-to-them-what-i-mean-is-if-you-approach-them-in-the-spirit-of-a-duel-so-you-can-both-wound-and-be-wounded-so-you-are-willing-to-argue 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-donnelly/quote/french-louis-seymour-of-the-west-canada-creek-who-knew-how-to-survive-all-alone-in-a-treacherous-wilderness-and-mr-alfred-g-vanderbilt-of-new-york-city-and-raquette-lake-who-was-richer-than-g 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sofia-samatar/quote/the-silence-end-of-all-poetry-all-romances-earlier-frightened-you-began-to-have-some-intimation-of-it-so-many-pages-had-been-turned-the-book-was-so-heavy-in-one-hand-so-light-in-the-other-thi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-louv/quote/unlike-television-reading-does-not-swallow-the-senses-or-dictate-thought-reading-stimulates-the-ecology-of-the-imagination-can-you-remember-the-wonder-you-felt-when-first-reading-the-jungle-b 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sei-shonagon/quote/pleasing-things-finding-a-large-number-of-tales-that-one-has-not-read-before-or-acquiring-the-second-volume-of-a-tale-whose-first-volume-one-has-enjoyed-but-often-it-is-a-disappointment 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cs-lewis/quote/the-true-reader-reads-every-work-seriously-in-the-sense-that-he-reads-it-whole-heartedly-makes-himself-as-receptive-as-he-can-but-for-that-very-reason-he-cannot-possibly-read-every-work-solem 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/quote/your-goodness-must-have-some-edge-to-it-else-it-is-none 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/de-stevenson/quote/there-are-adventures-of-the-spirit-and-one-can-travel-in-books-and-interest-oneself-in-people-and-affairs-one-need-never-be-dull-as-long-as-one-has-friends-to-help-gardens-to-enjoy-and-books- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ernest-hemingway/quote/im-trying-in-all-my-stories-to-get-the-feeling-of-the-actual-life-across-not-to-just-depict-life-or-criticize-it-but-to-actually-make-it-alive-so-that-when-you-have-read-something-by-me-you-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-maria-dominguez/quote/it-is-often-much-harder-to-get-rid-of-books-than-to-acquire-them-they-stick-to-us-in-that-pact-of-need-and-oblivion-we-make-with-them-witnesses-to-a-moment-in-our-lives-we-will-never-see-agai 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/courtney-milan/quote/libraries-are-the-future-of-reading-when-the-economy-is-down-we-need-to-make-it-easier-for-people-to-buy-and-read-books-for-free-not-harder-it-is-stupid-to-sacrifice-tomorrows-book-buyers-for 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christian-lander/quote/this-is-because-white-people-need-to-show-off-the-books-that-they-have-read-just-as-hunters-will-mount-the-heads-of-their-kills-white-people-need-to-let-people-know-that-they-have-made-their- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/virginia-woolf/quote/yet-who-reads-to-bring-about-an-end-however-desirable-are-there-not-some-pursuits-that-we-practise-because-they-are-good-in-themselves-and-some-pleasures-that-are-final-and-is-not-this-among- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mizuki-nomura/quote/theres-a-different-flavor-to-childrens-literature-you-read-after-you-grow-up-than-there-was-reading-it-as-a-child-things-that-were-sweet-as-a-child-become-bitter-once-you-grow-up 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-vaught/quote/some-things-can-be-fixed-some-things-are-just-too-broken 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pierre-bayard/quote/criticism-demands-infinitely-more-culture-than-artistic-creation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/claudia-gray/quote/the-library-wouldve-cheered-me-up-most-days-i-loved-the-heavy-oaken-tables-the-high-walls-stacked-with-books-to-the-ceiling-the-musty-smell-of-old-pages-and-the-heavy-brass-fixtures-that-had- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-knox/quote/i-have-no-particular-plan-in-life-and-thats-something-i-rather-like-most-things-that-people-do-seem-to-me-to-be-rather-dull-and-silly-in-my-ideal-life-id-be-left-alone-to-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-brooks/quote/what-we-have-in-life-that-we-can-count-on-is-who-we-are-and-where-we-come-from-she-thought-absently-for-better-or-worse-that-is-what-we-have-to-sustain-us-in-our-endevors-to-buttress-us-in-ou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-maxey/quote/i-decided-long-ago-that-lifes-absurd-if-you-dont-develop-a-sense-of-humor-it-will-drive-you-mad 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/loretta-chase/quote/they-were-perfectly-suited-they-would-speak-of-books-the-livelong-day-and-night-and-bore-everyone-else-but-themselves-to-distraction 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jerry-spinelli/quote/amanda-took-the-torn-page-from-maniac-to-her-it-was-the-broken-wing-of-a-bird-a-pet-out-in-the-rain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-moers/quote/there-were-adventure-stories-supplied-with-cloths-for-mopping-your-brow-thrillers-containing-pressed-leaves-of-soothing-valerian-to-be-sniffed-when-the-suspense-became-too-great-and-books-wit 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lewis-h-lapham/quote/as-many-as-six-out-of-ten-american-adults-have-never-read-a-book-of-any-kind-and-the-bulletins-from-the-nations-educational-frontiers-read-like-the-casualty-reports-from-a-lost-war 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maria-kodama/quote/if-you-have-feelings-about-reading-you-feel-the-rhythm-of-prose-or-of-a-poem-like-music-it-awakens-something-in-your-soul-and-then-of-course-you-study-read-you-grow-up-and-you-begin-to-unders 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keith-donohue/quote/i-followed-her-into-the-library-the-pale-light-from-our-chamber-below-dissipated-in-the-room-but-i-could-still-make-out-my-heart-leapt-at-the-sight-row-after-row-shelf-above-shelf-floor-to-ce 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nina-george/quote/whenever-monsieur-perdu-looked-at-a-book-he-did-not-see-it-purely-in-terms-of-a-story-retail-price-and-an-essential-balm-for-the-soul-he-saw-freedom-on-wings-of-paper 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jorge-luis-borges/quote/leaving-behind-the-babble-of-the-plaza-i-enter-the-library-i-feel-almost-physically-the-gravitation-of-the-books-the-enveloping-serenity-of-order-time-magically-dessicated-and-preserved 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cassandra-clare/quote/and-what-do-you-like-to-do-little-man-i-like-books-james-had-said-while-standing-in-the-bookshop-with-a-parcel-of-books-under-his-arm-the-lady-had-given-him-a-pitying-look-i-read-erm-rather-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-b-jones/quote/can-you-tell-me-what-happenedher-lips-thinned-as-she-shook-her-head-tis-not-a-happy-taleyou-have-me-reading-a-book-about-a-girl-who-tries-to-kill-an-entire-town-anything-else-at-this-point-wo 2026-10-23T17:07:44+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/georg-christoph-lichtenberg/quote/when-a-book-and-a-head-collide-and-a-hollow-sound-is-heard-must-it-always-have-come-from-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/harlan-ellison/quote/who-wants-a-library-full-of-books-youve-already-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adelise-m-cullens/quote/reality-doesnt-always-give-us-the-life-that-we-desire-but-we-can-always-find-what-we-desire-between-the-pages-of-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/veronica-henry/quote/i-have-lots-of-favourites-thats-the-trouble-with-books-you-can-never-choose-your-favorite-it-changes-depending-on-your-mood 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-wangerin-jr/quote/so-go-back-to-the-books-they-will-comfort-you-and-cheer-you-if-you-earnestly-work-with-them-neither-sorrow-nor-anxiety-nor-distress-nor-suffering-need-trouble-your-mind-any-more-no-not-evermo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joumana-haddad/quote/dont-be-afraid-of-books-even-the-most-dissident-seemingly-immoral-ones-culture-is-a-sure-bet-in-life-whether-high-low-eclectic-pop-ancient-or-modern-and-i-am-convinced-that-reading-is-one-of- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/foz-meadows/quote/for-centuries-no-one-was-concerned-that-books-werent-girl-friendly-because-no-one-really-cared-if-girls-read-but-even-so-we-persisted-for-long-enough-that-literature-has-slowly-come-to-accomm 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/italo-calvino/quote/you-turn-the-book-over-in-your-hands-you-scan-the-sentences-on-the-back-of-the-jacket-generic-phrases-that-dont-say-a-great-deal-so-much-the-better-there-is-no-message-that-indiscreetly-outsh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/soseki-natsume/quote/to-tell-you-the-truth-i-used-to-consider-it-a-disgrace-to-be-found-ignorant-by-other-people-but-now-i-find-that-i-am-not-ashamed-of-knowing-less-than-others-and-im-less-inclined-to-force-myse 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/quote/books-were-devices-as-crassly-practical-for-storing-or-transmitting-language-as-the-latest-silicon-valley-miracles-but-by-accident-not-by-cunning-calculation-books-because-of-their-weight-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamie-s-rich/quote/he-says-he-knows-someone-isnt-from-the-same-race-as-he-when-that-person-looks-at-his-library-and-asks-have-you-read-all-of-these-a-true-book-lover-knows-that-no-he-hasnt-read-them-all-its-abo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-baxter/quote/make-careful-choice-of-the-books-which-you-read-let-the-holy-scriptures-ever-have-the-preeminence-let-scripture-be-first-and-most-in-your-hearts-and-hands-and-other-books-be-used-as-subservie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/and-marianne-who-had-the-knack-of-finding-her-way-in-every-house-to-the-library-however-it-might-be-avoided-by-the-family-in-general-soon-procured-herself-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jen-campbell/quote/perhaps-that-is-the-best-way-to-say-it-printed-books-are-magical-and-real-bookshops-keep-that-magic-alive 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rabih-alameddine/quote/i-long-ago-abandoned-myself-to-a-blind-lust-for-the-written-word-literature-is-my-sandbox-in-it-i-play-build-my-forts-and-castles-spend-glorious-time-it-is-the-world-outside-that-box-that-giv 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/we-have-to-report-this-kai-sighed-deeply-in-relief-i-was-afraid-you-were-going-to-say-that-we-had-to-investigate-it-ourselvesdont-be-ridiculous-irene-said-briskly-we-may-collect-fiction-but-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/veronica-henry/quote/theres-a-book-for-everyone-even-if-they-dont-think-there-is-a-book-that-reaches-in-and-grabs-your-soul 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-cox/quote/the-summer-passed-quietly-i-busied-myself-as-best-i-could-reading-a-good-deal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/louise-miller/quote/the-waltz-held-the-feeling-you-get-when-you-finish-a-well-loved-book-it-left-me-longing-for-something-i-couldnt-name 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/henry-david-thoreau/quote/the-book-exists-for-us-perchance-which-will-explain-our-miracles-and-reveal-new-ones-the-at-present-unutterable-things-we-may-find-somewhere-uttered-these-same-questions-that-disturb-and-puzz 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steve-aylett/quote/most-books-are-so-well-written-they-barely-have-any-effect-on-the-readers-senses 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/friedrich-nietzsche/quote/do-you-love-tragedies-and-everything-that-breaks-the-heart 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/austin-kleon/quote/collect-books-even-if-you-dont-plan-on-reading-them-right-away-filmmaker-john-waters-has-said-nothing-is-more-important-than-an-unread-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maryrose-wood/quote/as-agatha-swanburne-once-said-to-be-kept-waiting-is-unfortunate-but-to-be-kept-waiting-with-nothing-interesting-to-read-is-a-tragedy-of-greek-proportions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarra-manning/quote/but-neve-you-cant-start-a-book-and-leave-it-halfway-through-hed-said-implacably-its-almost-as-bad-as-turning-down-the-corner-of-the-page-instead-of-using-a-bookmark 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charlie-brooker/quote/until-recently-i-was-an-ebook-sceptic-see-one-of-those-people-who-harrumphs-about-the-physical-pleasure-of-turning-actual-pages-and-how-ebook-will-never-replace-the-real-thing-then-i-was-give 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dorothea-benton-frank/quote/books-were-my-passion-and-my-escape-from-madness 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kate-evangelista/quote/ereaders-were-a-great-convenience-but-nothing-could-beat-the-smell-of-a-library-and-old-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-killeen/quote/if-a-book-did-nothing-else-for-you-other-than-to-save-you-from-the-company-of-other-people-if-all-it-did-was-to-deliver-you-from-their-gossip-and-their-dull-affairs-and-their-appalling-manner 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hilda-van-stockum/quote/she-thought-it-must-be-a-lonely-life-for-a-boy-who-hated-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edward-abbey/quote/readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-determine-a-books-eventual-fate 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/molly-keane/quote/yes-well-have-to-put-a-stop-to-this-bookworming-no-future-in-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lidia-yuknavitch/quote/i-kiss-her-i-kiss-her-and-kiss-her-i-try-not-to-bite-her-lip-she-tastes-like-vodkahoney 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gitty-daneshvari/quote/ive-always-loved-joining-clubs-although-in-truth-theyre-usually-book-clubs-robecca-steam 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-purdie-salas/quote/on-a-day-like-todaytheres-no-friend-like-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ilana-waters/quote/there-is-something-nice-about-a-library-isnt-there-mr-curtis-said-he-nodded-and-took-in-the-familiar-scenery-the-scent-of-ink-and-worn-dusty-pages 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-levithan/quote/if-she-were-running-through-the-rye-if-she-were-headed-towards-the-abyss-i-would-grab-hold-with-every-ounce-of-my-strength-with-every-scared-beat-of-my-heart-with-every-thought-that-could-onl 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-crowley/quote/god-he-thought-her-eyes-are-so-bright-flashing-deep-full-of-promise-all-those-things-eyes-are-in-books-but-never-are-in-life-and-she-was-his 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/martin-booth/quote/i-enjoy-books-no-room-is-fit-for-occupation-without-a-lining-of-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ross-king/quote/and-as-i-surveyed-the-clutter-of-his-study-i-was-pleased-to-see-that-he-was-a-man-after-my-own-heart-all-of-his-money-appeared-to-have-been-spent-on-either-books-or-shelves-to-hold-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-mccracken/quote/books-are-a-bad-family-there-are-those-you-love-and-those-you-are-indifferent-to-idiots-and-mad-cousins-who-you-would-banish-except-others-enjoy-their-company-wrongheaded-but-fascinating-ecce 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yukio-mishima/quote/suddenly-the-full-long-wail-of-a-ships-horn-surged-through-the-open-window-and-flooded-the-dim-room-a-cry-of-boundless-dark-demanding-grief-pitch-black-and-glabrous-as-a-whales-back-and-burde 2026-10-23T17:12:50+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-mccracken/quote/library-books-were-i-suddenly-realized-promiscuous-ready-to-lie-down-in-the-arms-of-anyone-who-asked-not-like-bookstore-books-which-married-their-purchasers-or-were-brokered-for-marriages-to- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deb-caletti/quote/we-are-thickly-layered-page-lying-upon-page-behind-simple-covers-and-love-it-is-not-the-book-itself-but-the-binding 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-hodgman/quote/its-been-a-tough-couple-of-years-for-condescending-nerds-and-if-bookstores-fall-jon-america-will-be-inundated-with-a-wandering-snarky-underclass-of-unemployable-purveyors-of-useless-and-arcan 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-abercrombie/quote/one-act-presses-upon-another-on-a-path-we-have-no-choice-but-to-follow-and-each-time-there-are-reasons-we-do-what-we-must-we-do-what-we-are-told-we-do-what-is-easiest-what-else-can-we-do-but- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-geoghegan/quote/thats-my-point-if-you-own-thirty-or-more-books-or-you-are-reading-any-book-at-this-moment-you-may-protest-all-you-want-but-you-were-born-on-the-wrong-continent 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-foster-wallace/quote/i-guess-a-bit-part-of-serious-fictions-purpose-is-to-give-the-reader-who-like-all-of-us-is-sort-of-marooned-in-her-own-skull-to-give-her-imaginative-access-to-other-selves 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nadine-rose-larter/quote/loving-sarah-was-like-reading-a-particularly-good-book-that-pressing-and-overwhelming-need-to-just-devour-it-as-fast-as-possible-is-matched-only-by-the-need-to-savour-it-slowly-and-completely 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/young-ha-kim/quote/novels-are-food-for-the-leftover-hours-of-life-the-in-between-times-the-moments-of-waiting 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scarlett-thomas/quote/i-think-about-stories-and-their-logic-and-wonder-if-there-can-be-any-such-thing-as-simply-there-is-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/quote/i-look-at-the-books-on-my-library-shelves-they-certainly-seem-dormant-but-what-if-the-characters-are-quietly-rearranging-themselves-what-if-emma-woodhouse-doesnt-learn-from-her-mistakes-what- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephen-king/quote/good-books-are-for-consideration-after-too 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/angel-gonzalez/quote/suddenly-the-readers-eyes-were-filled-with-tears-and-a-loving-voice-whispered-in-his-ear-why-are-you-crying-if-everything-in-that-book-isnt-true-and-the-reader-replied-i-know-but-what-i-feel- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-mccracken/quote/fire-is-a-speed-reader-which-is-why-the-ignorant-burn-books-fire-races-through-pages-takes-care-of-all-the-knowledge-and-never-bores-you-with-a-summary 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steve-aylett/quote/i-knew-books-could-see-people-around-them-they-ground-their-tiny-teeth-tried-to-rattle-like-windows-stories-to-tell 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lev-grossman/quote/she-was-too-tired-to-feel-anything-more-she-wanted-a-book-to-do-to-her-what-books-did-take-away-the-world-slide-it-aside-for-a-little-bit-and-let-her-please-please-just-be-somewhere-and-someb 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jerry-pinto/quote/i-didnt-go-to-bookshops-to-buy-thats-a-little-bourgeois-i-went-because-they-were-civilized-places-it-made-me-happy-there-were-people-who-sat-down-and-wrote-and-wrote-and-wrote-and-there-were- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/vicki-myron/quote/books-have-survived-television-radio-talking-pictures-circulars-early-magazines-dailies-early-newspapers-punch-and-judy-shows-and-shakespeares-plays-they-have-survived-world-war-ii-the-hundre 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laurence-cosse/quote/we-have-no-time-to-waste-on-insignificant-books-hollow-books-books-that-are-there-to-pleasewe-want-books-that-cost-their-authors-a-great-deal-books-where-you-can-feel-the-years-of-work-the-ba 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kimberly-mccreight/quote/clothes-were-to-sylvia-what-books-were-to-me-the-only-thing-that-really-mattered 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aya-ling/quote/books-open-new-worlds-to-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jo-walton/quote/i-had-said-that-le-guins-worlds-were-real-because-her-people-were-so-real-and-he-said-yes-but-the-people-were-so-real-because-they-were-the-people-the-worlds-would-have-produced-if-you-put-ge 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kim-edwards/quote/rows-and-rows-of-books-lined-the-shelves-and-i-let-my-eyes-linger-on-the-sturdy-spines-thinking-how-human-books-were-so-full-of-ideas-and-images-worlds-imagined-worlds-perceived-full-of-finge 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tony-reinke/quote/currently-the-library-of-congress-houses-eighteen-million-books-american-publishers-add-another-two-hundred-thousand-titles-to-this-stack-each-year-this-means-that-at-the-current-publishing-r 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/all-memory-is-individual-unreproducible-it-dies-with-each-person-what-is-called-collective-memory-is-not-a-remembering-but-a-stipulating-that-this-is-important-and-this-is-the-story-about-how 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/friedrich-nietzsche/quote/all-good-things-are-powerful-stimulants-to-life-even-a-good-book-written-against-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/veronica-henry/quote/books-are-more-precious-than-jewels-she-truly-believed-this-what-did-a-diamond-bring-you-a-momentary-flash-of-brilliance-a-diamond-scintillated-for-second-a-book-could-scintillate-forever 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/renee-ahdieh/quote/id-much-rather-fall-to-my-death-than-admit-my-weakness-to-youthe-captain-of-the-royal-guard-wants-to-impress-a-lowly-handmaidena-clumsy-young-man-wants-to-impress-a-beautiful-young-woman 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-chabon/quote/people-with-books-what-in-2007-could-be-more-incongruous-than-that-it-makes-me-want-to-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stasia-ward-kehoe/quote/do-i-dare-ask-him-for-what-i-wantas-if-i-knew-itcould-find-it-on-some-pagein-some-chapterin-some-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/is-there-an-antidote-to-the-perennial-seductiveness-of-war-and-is-this-a-question-a-woman-is-more-likely-to-pose-than-a-man-probably-yes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lewis-buzbee/quote/if-you-read-one-book-a-week-starting-at-the-age-of-5-and-live-to-be-80-you-will-have-read-a-grand-total-of-3900-books-a-little-over-one-tenth-of-1-percent-of-the-books-currently-in-print 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mo-willems/quote/i-always-say-books-beat-boredom-said-amanda-wisely 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jeanette-winterson/quote/i-wasnt-reading-poetry-because-my-aim-was-to-work-my-way-through-english-literature-in-prose-a-zbut-this-was-diff 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aung-san-suu-kyi/quote/some-of-the-most-relaxing-weekends-i-have-ever-enjoyed-were-those-i-spent-quietly-with-a-sense-of-all-work-to-date-completed-and-an-absorbing-mystery 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-morley/quote/a-doctor-is-advertised-by-the-bodies-he-cures-my-business-is-advertised-by-the-minds-i-stimulate-and-let-me-tell-you-that-the-book-business-is-different-from-other-trades-people-dont-know-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carmen-desousa/quote/a-great-book-increases-my-heartbeat-as-if-im-prey-melts-my-insides-in-anticipation-of-a-first-kiss-immerses-me-in-its-depths 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clay-carmichael/quote/i-inhaled-the-musty-leathery-old-papery-scent-and-a-shiver-passed-over-me-if-i-had-any-idea-of-heaven-it-was-this-shelves-and-shelves-of-books-ten-times-as-many-as-were-upstairs-each-with-sto 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lewis-buzbee/quote/a-bran-new-book-is-a-beautiful-thing-all-promise-and-fresh-pages-the-neatly-squared-spine-the-brisk-sense-of-a-journey-beginning-but-a-well-worn-book-also-has-its-pleasures-the-soft-caress-an 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carol-lynch-williams/quote/lacey-girl-books-take-you-anywhere-any-place-you-want-to-go-you-remember-that-always 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marguerite-yourcenar/quote/leaving-behind-books-is-even-more-beautiful-there-are-far-too-many-children 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/frazier-glenn-miller/quote/i-spent-much-of-my-prison-time-reading-i-must-have-read-over-200-large-books-mostly-fictional-stories-about-the-american-pioneers-the-vikings-mafia-etc-as-long-as-i-was-engrossed-in-a-book-i- 2026-10-23T17:11:25+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hazel-osmond/quote/jack-shook-his-head-books-what-is-it-with-women-and-books-my-sisters-were-the-same-they-were-always-buying-books-for-boys-they-fanciedellie-bent-down-and-picked-up-the-stone-and-put-it-on-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/theodore-roosevelt/quote/there-is-quite-enough-sorrow-and-shame-and-suffering-and-baseness-in-real-life-and-there-is-no-need-for-meeting-it-unnecessarily-in-fiction-as-police-commissioner-it-was-my-duty-to-deal-with- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-godbersen/quote/she-found-herself-longing-for-home-not-just-for-the-hotel-but-for-new-york-and-all-the-real-novels-that-she-could-lose-herself-in-there 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michelle-cooper/quote/do-you-know-what-it-is-toby-said-thoughtfully-its-that-they-havent-had-anything-really-awful-happen-to-them-no-wonder-they-seem-so-superficial-and-unfeeling-it-was-certainly-an-interesting-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jincy-willett/quote/reading-was-not-an-escape-for-her-any-more-than-it-is-for-me-it-was-an-aspect-of-direct-experience-she-distinguished-of-course-between-the-fictional-world-and-the-real-one-in-which-she-had-to 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/crackedcom/quote/in-1800s-paris-women-were-prohibited-from-studying-the-nude-human-form-because-this-wouldve-ruined-the-wedding-night-surprise-surprise-its-a-penis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-jacobs/quote/great-books-are-great-in-part-because-of-what-they-ask-of-their-readers-they-are-not-readily-encountered-easily-assessed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-prange/quote/books-are-never-harmlessthey-either-strengthen-us-or-they-weaken-us-in-our-faith-some-of-them-do-this-even-as-they-entertain-us-others-as-they-teach-us-in-an-invisible-way-their-teaching-pene 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adam-gopnik/quote/of-all-the-unexpected-things-in-contemporary-literature-this-is-among-the-oddest-that-kids-have-an-inordinate-appetite-for-very-long-very-tricky-very-strange-books-about-places-that-dont-exis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-de-bury/quote/books-appear-to-be-the-most-immediate-instruments-of-speculative-delight 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rosie-odonnell/quote/id-always-admired-writers-id-always-loved-words-on-a-page-somehow-words-seemed-to-bypass-image-and-get-straight-to-the-heart-of-things-somehow-words-seemed-big-enough-to-contain-pain-and-sent 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shawn-l-bird/quote/good-characters-make-you-feel-like-you-have-new-friends-dont-they-you-have-to-re-read-the-books-just-to-visit-with-them-again-grace-awakening-book-one-awakening-dreams 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-carr/quote/if-the-holy-bible-was-printed-as-an-ace-double-it-would-be-cut-down-to-two-20000-word-halves-with-the-old-testament-retitled-as-master-of-chaos-and-the-new-testament-as-the-thing-with-three-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-miller/quote/if-we-weigh-the-significance-of-a-book-by-the-effect-it-has-on-its-readers-then-the-great-childrens-books-suddenly-turn-up-very-high-on-the-list 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/to-senor-sempere-the-best-friend-a-book-could-ever-have-you-opened-the-doors-to-the-world-for-me-and-showed-me-how-to-go-through-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-macdonald/quote/i-am-still-librarian-in-your-house-for-i-never-was-dismissed-and-never-gave-up-the-office-now-i-am-librarian-here-as-wellbut-you-have-just-told-me-you-were-sexton-hereso-i-am-it-is-much-the-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/philip-l-moore/quote/if-you-can-read-write-then-the-opportunities-are-endless-if-you-just-believe-in-yourself-then-anything-is-possible-you-can-become-anyone-and-do-anything-whats-more-is-you-can-take-others-with 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/allison-hoover-bartlett/quote/it-had-a-crisp-paper-jacket-unlike-the-paper-covered-library-books-i-was-used-to-and-the-way-the-pages-parted-i-could-tell-i-was-the-first-to-open-it-i-valued-that-half-dream-state-of-being-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tiffini-johnson/quote/the-worst-book-imaginable-has-a-redeeming-quality-if-it-gets-a-young-person-to-read 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-baxter/quote/to-live-among-such-excellent-helps-as-our-libraries-afford-to-have-so-many-silent-wise-companions-whenever-we-please 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/he-had-a-little-single-story-house-three-bedrooms-a-full-bathroom-and-a-half-bathroom-a-combined-kitchen-living-room-dining-room-with-windows-that-faced-west-a-small-brick-porch-where-there-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terentianus-maurus/quote/habent-sua-fata-libelli-books-have-their-own-destinies 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dj-machale/quote/i-rode-my-bike-home-and-did-the-one-thing-that-always-helped-when-things-werent-going-well-i-read-books-were-my-refuge-getting-lost-in-a-solid-adventure-story-was-the-best-way-i-knew-of-to-tu 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/narratives-can-make-us-understand-photographs-do-something-else-they-haunt-us 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-rilstone/quote/books-all-books-are-complicated-things-muttering-at-us-in-different-contradictory-voices-refusing-to-stay-the-same-when-we-go-back-to-them-tying-them-down-too-much-robs-of-them-of-the-magic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/a-edward-newton/quote/any-book-is-my-kind-of-book-that-i-can-read-with-delight 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/photographs-objectify-they-turn-an-event-or-a-person-into-something-that-can-be-possessed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/no-we-should-be-taken-for-granted-when-the-subject-is-looking-at-other-peoples-pain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lang-leav/quote/without-a-doubti-must-readall-the-booksive-read-aboutsee-the-artworkshung-on-hooksthat-i-have-onlyseen-in-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aidan-chambers/quote/i-cannot-live-without-reading 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-green/quote/in-the-end-what-makes-a-book-valuable-is-not-the-paper-its-printed-on-but-the-thousands-of-hours-of-work-by-dozens-of-people-who-are-dedicated-to-creating-the-best-possible-reading-experience 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/el-montes/quote/the-point-is-jenna-no-one-is-normal-or-perfect-like-that-house-you-see-across-the-street-everyone-suffers-from-their-own-struggles-whether-theyre-big-or-small 2026-10-23T17:12:25+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anita-valle/quote/ten-minutes-of-careful-searching-later-maelyn-faced-the-dismal-truth-she-was-bookless 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matt-haig/quote/there-is-this-idea-that-you-either-read-to-escape-or-you-read-to-find-yourself-i-dont-really-see-the-difference-we-find-ourselves-through-the-process-of-escaping 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/quote/he-who-studies-old-books-will-always-find-in-them-something-new-and-he-who-reads-new-books-will-always-find-in-them-something-old 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deb-caletti/quote/usually-i-set-one-foot-in-a-library-and-i-feel-my-own-internal-volume-lower-a-library-is-a-physical-equivalent-of-a-sigh-its-the-silence-sure-but-its-also-the-certainty-of-all-those-books-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/books-are-not-about-passing-the-time-theyre-about-other-lives-other-worlds 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aileen-erin/quote/i-dusted-my-books-off-placing-each-one-sorted-alphabetically-and-by-genre-on-the-shelves-dad-installed-what-some-people-might-call-anal-id-call-efficient-what-good-was-it-to-have-a-book-if-yo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcel-proust/quote/no-days-perhaps-of-all-our-childhood-are-ever-so-fully-lived-are-those-that-we-had-regarded-as-not-being-lived-at-all-days-spent-wholly-with-a-favourite-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eva-ibbotson/quote/they-were-steaming-out-of-the-station-before-maia-asked-was-it-books-in-the-trunkit-was-books-admitted-miss-mintonand-maia-said-good 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leah-spiegel/quote/i-just-love-the-smell-of-an-old-book-store-and-the-feel-of-the-crisp-pages-along-my-fingertips 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-coolidge/quote/she-read-all-sorts-of-things-travels-and-sermons-and-old-magazines-nothing-was-so-dull-that-she-couldnt-get-through-with-it-anything-really-interesting-absorbed-her-so-that-she-never-knew-wha 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-paul-curtis/quote/as-soon-as-i-got-into-the-library-i-closed-my-eyes-and-took-a-deep-breath-i-got-a-whiff-of-the-leather-on-all-the-old-books-a-smell-that-got-real-strong-if-you-picked-one-of-them-up-and-stuck 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leonard-cohen/quote/dear-diaryyou-are-greater-than-the-bibleand-the-conference-of-the-birdsand-the-upanishadsall-put-togetheryou-are-more-severethan-the-scripturesand-hammurabis-codemore-dangerous-than-luthers-p 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-morley/quote/there-is-no-mistaking-a-real-book-when-one-meets-it-it-is-like-falling-in-love-and-like-that-colossal-adventure-it-is-an-experience-of-great-social-import-even-as-the-tranced-swain-the-booklo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pb-kerr/quote/and-tell-them-all-about-the-books-youve-read-better-still-buy-some-more-books-and-read-them-thats-an-order-you-can-never-read-too-many-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dean-koontz/quote/in-a-book-even-the-real-bastards-cant-hurt-you-and-you-can-never-loose-a-friend-you-make-in-a-book-when-you-get-to-a-sad-part-no-ones-there-to-see-you-cry-or-wonder-why-you-dont-cry-when-you- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/j-patrick-lewis/quote/librariesareneccessarygardensunsurpassedatgrowingexcitement 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-w-glaspey/quote/let-me-begin-with-a-heartfelt-confessioni-admit-it-i-am-a-biblioholic-one-who-loves-books-and-whose-life-would-seem-incomplete-without-them-i-am-an-addict-with-a-compulsive-need-to-stop-by-ne 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lewis-buzbee/quote/ive-had-many-more-thousands-of-books-in-my-possession-than-my-shelves-at-home-would-indicate-at-one-time-i-tried-to-keep-them-all-but-that-quest-soon-became-impossible-i-now-only-keep-the-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/louise-penny/quote/myrna-could-spend-happy-hours-browsing-bookcases-she-felt-if-she-could-just-get-a-good-look-at-a-persons-bookcase-and-their-grocery-cart-shed-pretty-much-know-who-they-were 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jean-marie-g-le-clezio/quote/real-lives-have-no-end-real-books-have-no-end 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cecil-b-demille/quote/now-public-libraries-are-most-admirable-institutions-but-they-have-one-irritating-custom-they-want-their-books-back 2026-10-23T17:30:17+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/probably-all-of-us-writers-and-readers-alike-set-out-into-exile-or-at-least-into-a-certain-kind-of-exile-when-we-leave-childhood-behindthe-immigrant-the-nomad-the-traveler-the-sleepwalker-all 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/donita-k-paul/quote/fenworth-owned-a-world-famous-library-more-rooms-held-books-than-beds-pillows-stuffed-in-niches-and-comfortable-chairs-scattered-throughout-each-room-offered-abundant-paces-to-curl-up-and-rea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jorge-luis-borges/quote/the-gods-weave-misfortunes-for-men-so-that-the-generations-to-come-will-have-something-to-sing-about-mallarme-repeats-less-beautifully-what-homer-said-tout-aboutit-en-un-livre-everything-ends 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robertson-davies/quote/so-i-confess-i-have-been-a-rake-at-reading-i-have-read-those-things-which-i-ought-not-to-have-read-and-i-have-not-read-those-things-which-i-ought-to-have-read-and-there-is-no-health-in-me-if- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edward-abbey/quote/i-would-not-sacrifice-a-single-living-mesquite-tree-for-any-book-ever-written-one-square-mile-of-living-desert-is-worth-a-hundred-great-books-and-one-brave-deed-is-worth-a-thousand 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarra-manning/quote/but-really-it-says-everything-thats-wrong-about-the-publishing-industry-that-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-bought-and-read-a-sex-and-shopping-novel-that-wasnt-even-written-by-one-of-those-foo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ethan-russell-erway/quote/use-more-caution-the-next-time-you-make-a-reading-selection-books-you-know-are-a-lot-like-people-and-each-and-every-one-of-us-is-ultimately-judged-by-the-company-we-keep 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leah-price/quote/a-self-without-a-shelf-remains-cryptic-a-home-without-books-naked 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/crackedcom/quote/the-story-was-so-thoroughly-believed-that-a-springfield-massachusetts-missionary-society-resolved-to-send-missionaries-to-the-moon-to-convert-and-civilize-the-bat-men-apparently-unaware-that- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ann-brashares/quote/they-were-the-sisterhood-their-mothers-at-a-younger-age 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sam-savage/quote/i-dont-know-why-we-stopped-reading-together-but-gradually-we-were-not-doing-it-regularly-and-then-without-realizing-it-was-happening-we-were-reading-different-books-and-gradually-we-came-not- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shirley-jackson/quote/materializations-are-often-best-produced-in-rooms-where-there-are-books-i-cannot-think-of-any-time-when-materialization-was-in-any-way-hampered-by-the-presence-of-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steve-rasnic-tem/quote/i-was-never-very-good-with-either-my-hands-or-feet-it-always-seemed-to-me-theyd-just-been-stuck-on-as-an-afterthought-during-my-making-dreams-didnt-translate-through-sports-or-music-dancing-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-hoeg/quote/back-then-i-could-not-understand-one-word-of-what-i-readreading-did-however-give-me-heart-even-if-you-cannot-understand-what-you-are-reading-you-can-get-something-from-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-ince/quote/i-am-not-man-or-beast-i-am-bibliosexual-and-a-seedy-bibliosexual-who-haunts-the-streets-laden-with-carrier-bags-held-by-blistered-fingers-stooping-under-the-weight-of-the-rucksack-that-has-br 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abelardo-morell/quote/at-times-i-have-been-convinced-that-books-hold-all-the-material-of-life-at-least-all-the-stuff-that-fits-between-an-a-and-a-z 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/a-edward-newton/quote/there-may-be-little-room-for-the-display-of-this-supreme-qualification-in-the-retail-book-business-but-there-is-room-for-some-be-enterprising-get-good-people-about-you-make-your-shop-windows- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matthew-battles/quote/roger-bacon-held-that-three-classes-of-substance-were-capable-of-magic-the-herbal-the-mineral-and-the-verbal-with-their-leaves-of-fiber-their-inks-of-copperas-and-soot-and-their-words-books-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-bynum/quote/we-knew-the-difference-between-that-which-cannot-be-expressed-and-that-which-must-we-understood-that-while-words-are-a-path-taking-us-only-so-far-they-are-a-requisite-to-the-journey-they-are- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emily-maguire/quote/and-reading-this-way-with-no-deadline-no-agenda-she-remembered-why-she-loved-literature-so-much-it-was-like-fucking-a-new-man-and-knowing-that-he-had-made-other-women-come-but-that-when-she-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-clark/quote/it-would-be-unfair-to-say-that-i-prefer-the-back-of-a-book-to-its-contents-but-it-is-true-that-the-sight-of-a-lot-of-books-gives-me-the-hope-that-i-may-some-day-read-them-which-sometimes-deve 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/ignatius-b-samson-welcome-to-the-cemetery-of-forgotten-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michelle-cliff/quote/who-can-say-how-many-lives-have-been-saved-by-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/murzban-f-shroff/quote/one-generations-pleasure-became-a-burden-for-another-hence-entire-collections-from-father-to-son-were-sold-for-a-song-and-the-vendors-knowing-nothing-about-literature-would-place-a-price-on-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/quote/it-may-be-whispered-to-those-uninitiated-people-who-are-anxious-to-know-the-habits-and-make-the-acquaintance-of-men-of-letters-that-there-are-no-race-of-people-who-talk-about-books-or-perhaps 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/i-was-no-longer-able-to-hear-the-music-that-issues-from-a-decent-piece-of-prose 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marisa-de-los-santos/quote/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-youve-heard-of-these-books-am-i-right-weve-all-heard-of-them-but-i-wonder-if-youre-aware-of-just-how-many-chicken-soup-books-exist-on-the-planet-no-offense-but-i-dou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hugo-chavez/quote/i-love-books-if-they-are-good-books-i-love-them-even-more-but-even-if-they-are-bad-books-i-still-love-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matt-ruff/quote/but-stories-are-like-people-atticus-loving-them-doesnt-make-them-perfect-you-try-to-cherish-their-virtues-and-overlook-their-flaws-the-flaws-are-still-there-though-but-you-dont-get-mad-not-li 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/virginia-woolf/quote/whats-the-use-trying-to-read-shakespeare-especially-in-one-of-those-little-paper-editions-whose-pages-get-ruffled-or-stuck-together-with-sea-water 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keith-donohue/quote/the-flickering-candlelight-conspired-with-the-silence-and-we-only-interrupted-each-others-reading-to-share-a-casual-delight 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-lodge/quote/london-december-1915-in-the-master-bedroom-never-was-the-estate-agents-epithet-more-appropriate-of-flat-21-carlyle-mansions-cheyne-walk-chelsea-the-distinguished-author-is-dying-slowly-but-su 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alice-hoffman/quote/shelby-watched-the-books-burn-she-wonders-if-words-are-pouring-down-on-other-peoples-housessad-words-like-beast-and-mourn-and-sorrow-and-mother 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pascal-mercier/quote/there-were-the-people-who-read-and-there-were-the-others-whether-you-were-a-reader-or-a-nonreader-it-was-quickly-noted-there-was-no-greater-distinction-between-people-people-were-amazed-when- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-milton/quote/for-books-are-not-absolutely-dead-things-but-do-preserve-as-in-a-vial-the-purest-efficacy-and-extraction-of-that-living-intellect-that-bred-them-i-know-they-are-as-lively-and-as-vigorously-pr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michelle-zink/quote/its-emptiness-is-more-than-the-lack-of-living-breathing-beings-it-is-the-unread-pages-of-the-many-books-that-reside-on-the-shelves-throughout-the-room-i-should-hot-have-thought-one-could-tell 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/django-wexler/quote/much-later-alice-would-wonder-what-might-have-happened-if-she-had-gone-to-bed-when-she-was-supposed-to 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/veronica-henry/quote/a-town-without-a-book-shop-was-a-town-without-a-heart 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-sacredfire/quote/books-can-change-the-world-they-represent-a-second-chance-for-those-that-want-to-change-their-life-and-cant 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roland-barthes/quote/boredom-is-not-far-from-bliss-it-is-bliss-seen-from-the-shores-of-pleasure 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/soseki-natsume/quote/if-he-let-one-day-pass-without-glancing-at-a-single-page-habit-led-him-to-feel-a-vague-sense-of-decay-therefore-in-the-face-of-most-intrusions-he-tried-to-arrange-it-so-that-he-could-stay-in- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gloria-steinem/quote/altogether-if-i-had-to-pick-one-place-to-hang-out-anywhere-from-new-york-to-cape-town-and-australia-to-hong-kong-a-bookstore-would-be-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/frederik-pohl/quote/i-perceived-quite-early-that-i-was-a-reader-and-most-of-the-people-i-came-into-contact-with-were-not-it-made-a-barrier-what-they-wanted-to-talk-about-were-things-they-had-eaten-touched-or-don 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jessica-brody/quote/when-my-phone-chimes-with-a-text-message-on-monday-morning-im-still-in-that-dreamy-state-between-sleep-and-awake-where-you-can-pretty-much-convince-yourself-of-anything-like-that-a-teen-mick- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maya-angelou/quote/i-found-it-hard-to-think-of-leaving-my-books-they-had-been-my-elevators-out-of-the-midden-and-to-whom-could-i-entrust-such-close-friends 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/henry-james/quote/when-i-read-a-novel-my-imagination-starts-off-at-a-gallop-and-leaves-the-narrator-hidden-in-a-cloud-of-dust-i-have-to-come-jogging-twenty-miles-back-to-the-denouement 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ken-liu/quote/the-allatians-believe-that-they-have-a-writing-system-superior-to-all-others-unlike-books-written-in-alphabets-syllabaries-or-logograms-an-allatian-book-captures-not-only-words-but-also-the-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erin-wunker/quote/still-when-i-think-of-early-friendships-i-think-not-of-people-but-of-books-books-were-my-friends-and-more-often-than-not-the-characters-in-the-books-were-my-imaginary-friends-who-stepped-out- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gk-chesterton/quote/there-are-books-showing-men-how-to-succeed-in-everything-they-are-written-by-men-who-cannot-even-succeed-in-writing-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/josephine-hart/quote/shes-always-loved-writers-even-more-than-the-books-i-think-theyre-like-personal-friends-to-her 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/felipe-fernandez-armesto/quote/part-of-the-pleasure-of-engaging-with-a-writer-is-unraveling-some-allusions-and-admitting-defeat-by-others 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/arthur-schopenhauer/quote/the-art-of-not-reading-is-a-very-important-one-you-should-remember-that-he-who-writes-for-fools-always-find-a-large-public-a-precondition-for-reading-good-books-is-not-reading-bad-ones-for-li 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephen-king/quote/henry-did-not-want-to-be-fixed-was-somehow-convinced-that-the-fix-would-be-a-lie-something-that-would-lessen-him 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deyth-banger/quote/to-be-honest-i-wrote-it-mainly-from-the-reason-and-wanting-something-more-than-a-life-something-which-could-explore-my-life-at-deeper-level-probably-i-have-done-it-probably-i-havent-done-it-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mai-al-nakib/quote/it-was-a-fruit-we-had-never-seen-before-larger-than-an-apple-about-the-size-of-a-grapefruit-it-was-round-and-yellow-like-the-leaves-of-a-neglected-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/they-had-reached-a-perfect-moment-of-human-love-they-had-created-a-moment-of-perfect-understanding-and-accord-this-highest-moment-would-now-remain-as-point-of-comparison-to-torment-them-later 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/it-is-intolerable-to-have-ones-sufferings-twinned-with-anybody-elses 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/these-rituals-rango-could-not-sustain-for-he-could-not-maintain-the-effort-to-arrive-on-time-since-his-lifelong-habit-had-created-the-opposite-habit-to-elude-to-avoid-to-disappoint-every-expe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lauren-collins/quote/hello-and-good-bye-were-a-pair-of-bookends-propping-up-a-vast-library-of-blank-volumes-void-almanacs-novels-full-of-sentiment-i-couldnt-apprehend 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/we-this-we-is-everyone-who-has-never-experienced-anything-like-what-they-went-through-dont-understand-we-dont-get-it-we-truly-cant-imagine-what-it-was-like-we-cant-imagine-how-dreadful-how-te 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/up-to-a-point-the-weight-and-seriousness-of-such-photographs-survive-better-in-a-book-where-one-can-look-privately-linger-over-the-pictures-without-talking-still-at-some-moment-the-book-will- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/it-is-felt-that-there-is-something-morally-wrong-with-the-abstract-of-reality-offered-by-photography-that-one-has-no-right-to-experience-the-suffering-of-others-at-a-distance-denuded-of-its-r 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/i-loved-your-breaking-down-that-door-repeated-djuna-through-rango-she-had-breathed-some-other-realm-she-had-never-attained-before-she-had-touched-through-his-act-some-climate-of-violence-she- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/out-of-worship-and-out-of-love-he-would-let-no-one-light-the-stove-for-her-either-as-if-he-would-be-the-warmth-and-the-fire-to-dry-and-warm-her-feet 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/although-i-was-so-big-and-so-rough-in-many-ways-loved-hunting-fighting-horseback-riding-i-loved-the-piano-above-everything-elsethe-mountain-mans-obsession-is-to-get-a-glimpse-of-the-sea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/perhaps-too-much-value-is-assigned-to-memory-not-enough-to-thinking-remembering-is-an-ethical-act-has-ethical-value-in-and-of-itself-memory-is-achingly-the-only-relation-we-can-have-with-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/to-set-their-sufferings-alongside-the-sufferings-of-another-people-was-to-compare-them-which-hell-was-worse-demoting-sarajevos-martyrdom-to-a-mere-instance 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/compassion-is-an-unstable-emotion-it-needs-to-be-translated-into-action-or-it-withers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/he-failed-to-see-that-it-contained-at-once-all-of-djunas-wishes-which-had-been-denied-and-these-wishes-had-flown-from-all-directions-to-meet-at-this-intersection-and-to-plead-once-more-for-un 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/of-course-youll-defend-jay-says-rango-he-was-a-part-of-your-former-life-of-your-former-values-i-will-never-be-able-to-alter-that-i-want-you-to-think-as-i-dobut-rango-you-couldnt-respect-someo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/what-can-i-say-rango-what-can-i-do-to-prove-to-you-that-i-belong-to-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/it-is-a-view-of-suffering-of-the-pain-of-others-that-is-rooted-in-religious-thinking-which-links-pain-to-sacrifice-sacrifice-to-exaltation-a-view-that-could-not-be-more-alien-to-a-modern-sens 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anais-nin/quote/he-had-appointed-her-not-only-guardian-angel-but-a-member-of-his-ideals 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/one-can-feel-obliged-to-look-at-phototgraphs-that-record-great-cruelties-and-crimes-one-should-feel-obliged-to-think-about-what-it-means-to-look-at-them-about-the-capacity-actually-to-assimil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/with-time-many-staged-photographs-turn-back-into-historical-evidence-albeit-of-an-impure-kind-like-most-historical-evidence 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/what-is-odd-is-not-that-so-many-of-the-iconic-news-photos-of-the-past-including-some-of-the-best-remembered-pictures-from-the-second-world-war-appear-to-have-been-staged-it-is-that-we-are-sur 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/francine-looked-up-and-mouthed-thank-you-any-titme-i-lied 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/the-real-proof-that-i-have-tried-to-love-and-that-people-have-tried-to-love-me-back-was-never-going-to-fit-in-a-kitchen-drawer 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/its-so-clear-to-me-now-the-memorizing-of-a-fake-prayer-the-symbolization-of-objects-the-struggle-to-relate-to-the-invisible-i-needed-a-religion-i-was-lost 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/perhaps-if-id-had-god-in-my-life-growing-up-i-would-have-been-able-to-understand-the-total-and-complete-unfairness-of-the-universe-rewarding-mean-girls 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/there-is-a-point-in-most-abusive-relationships-when-it-occurs-to-the-beaten-party-that-they-are-guilty-of-putting-their-face-in-the-way-of-someone-elses-fist 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/so-natural-and-universal-is-a-childs-curiosity-about-sex-and-so-long-are-we-conscious-of-it-before-we-do-it-that-our-original-impressions-of-it-leave-an-indelible-mark 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/why-do-people-always-want-to-put-their-hands-on-vulnerability-i-sped-up 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/i-have-never-pictured-my-own-wedding-i-do-want-to-get-married-its-a-nice-idea-though-i-think-husbands-are-like-tattoos-you-should-wait-until-you-come-across-something-you-want-on-your-body-fo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/it-seemed-that-having-girlfriends-was-a-sign-of-innocence-and-a-boundless-capacity-to-care-about-other-women-the-hearts-in-that-photograph-and-multiple-strings-attached-to-multiple-other-hear 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/weddings-are-friendship-deal-breakers-if-the-friendship-is-weak-there-are-too-many-favors-too-many-tasks-too-much-required-devotion-and-aqua-net-for-imposters-like-me-i-tried-to-make-eye-cont 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/love-is-not-boastful-but-hate-apparently-hate-has-a-big-mouth 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/i-thought-of-the-past-and-how-one-should-have-respect-for-it-like-the-elderly 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/it-should-be-noted-that-my-mother-has-a-long-history-of-being-disturbingly-unperturbed-by-what-normal-people-deem-perturbing-certain-things-simply-dont-strike-her-as-worthy-of-a-sit-down 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/teddy-bears-are-best-because-they-understand-its-nice-to-be-alone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sloane-crosley/quote/even-a-person-like-this-makes-mistakes-cant-always-hold-on-to-everything-theyd-like-tocant-always-force-the-world-to-spin-in-the-direction-of-their-choosing-youll-hug-him-longer-than-necessar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/in-fact-there-are-many-uses-of-the-innumerable-opportunities-a-modern-life-supplies-for-regarding-at-a-distance-through-the-medium-of-photography-other-peoples-pain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/the-memory-of-war-however-like-all-memory-is-mostly-local 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/photographs-that-depict-suffering-shouldnt-be-beautiful-as-captions-shouldnt-moralize 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/making-suffering-loom-larger-by-globalizing-it-may-spur-people-to-feel-they-ought-to-care-more 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/often-something-looks-or-is-felt-to-look-better-in-a-photograph-indeed-it-is-one-of-the-functions-of-photography-to-improve-the-normal-appearance-of-things-hence-one-is-always-disappointed-by 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabrielle-zevin/quote/a-place-is-not-really-a-place-without-a-bookstore 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/never-before-had-i-felt-trapped-so-seduced-and-caught-up-in-a-story-clara-explained-the-way-i-did-with-that-book-until-then-reading-was-just-a-duty-a-sort-of-fine-one-had-to-pay-teachers-and- 2026-10-23T15:20:51+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jacques-bonnet/quote/every-time-you-open-a-book-for-the-first-time-there-is-something-akin-to-safe-breaking-about-it-yes-thats-exactly-it-the-frantic-reader-is-like-a-burglar-who-has-spent-hours-digging-a-tunnel- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-jacobs/quote/the-book-that-simply-demands-to-be-read-for-no-good-reason-is-asking-us-to-change-our-lives-by-putting-aside-what-we-usually-think-of-as-good-reasons-its-asking-us-to-stop-calculating-its-ask 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jim-mccann/quote/so-much-is-yet-to-come-soon-will-be-blankets-and-pillows-and-books-by-the-bed-to-make-the-stuff-of-dreams-and-then-tomorrows 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/somewhere-between-not-enough-and-not-at-all-i-was-always-hungry-for-love-just-once-i-wanted-to-know-what-it-was-like-to-get-my-fill-of-it-to-be-fed-so-much-love-i-couldnt-take-any-more-just-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sully-tarnish/quote/books-are-the-only-things-worth-stealing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-gaiman/quote/i-still-love-the-book-ness-of-books-the-smell-of-books-i-am-a-book-fetishist-books-to-me-are-the-coolest-and-sexiest-and-most-wonderful-things-there-are 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kit-pearson/quote/choosing-a-new-book-was-like-looking-for-treasure 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/i-am-no-novel-reader-i-seldom-look-into-novels-do-not-imagine-that-i-often-read-novels-it-is-really-very-well-for-a-novel-such-is-the-common-cant-and-what-are-you-reading-miss-oh-it-is-only-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-loren/quote/no-but-i-do-read-a-lot-i-love-to-read-i-could-read-for-days-and-never-stop-i-use-to-be-such-a-bookworm-i-would-barely-look-up-to-notice-much-of-anything 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/graham-swift/quote/there-has-always-been-for-me-this-other-world-this-second-world-to-fall-back-on-a-more-reliable-world-in-so-far-as-it-does-not-hide-that-its-premise-is-illusion 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amor-towles/quote/kateys-the-hottest-bookworm-youll-ever-meet-if-you-took-all-the-books-that-shes-read-and-piled-them-in-a-stack-you-could-climb-to-the-milky-way 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-donnelly/quote/but-eating-was-the-last-thing-on-my-mind-and-i-didnt-see-how-miss-wilcox-could-eat-or-teach-or-sleep-or-ever-find-any-reason-to-leave-this-room-not-with-all-these-books-in-it-just-begging-to- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-keller/quote/more-than-at-any-other-time-when-i-hold-a-beloved-book-in-my-hand-my-limitations-fall-from-me-my-spirit-is-free 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patricia-finney/quote/i-hate-it-when-everyone-is-so-noble-and-good-in-a-story-that-you-cant-imagine-it-being-true-at-all 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-laskin/quote/gro-rollag-was-no-beauty-but-she-was-a-strong-capable-young-woman-with-a-long-face-prominent-cheekbones-high-forehead-and-a-kindly-intelligent-look-in-her-rather-narrow-eyes-according-to-fami 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/henry-kuttner/quote/dr-manning-said-hed-thought-at-first-it-might-be-sleeping-sickness-or-even-narcolepsy-whatever-that-was-but-no-pete-was-healthy-enough-physically-manoel-growled-that-the-boy-was-bone-lazy-spe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anita-valle/quote/maelyn-smiled-if-books-could-have-litters-shed-be-just-as-happy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-tracey/quote/library-its-where-we-lock-up-all-those-books-before-they-start-giving-kids-ideas-i-said-solemnly-very-dangerous-place-to-be 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/archbishop-why-do-i-never-read-the-lesson-i-beg-your-pardon-maam-in-church-everybody-else-gets-to-read-and-one-never-does-its-not-laid-down-is-it-its-not-off-limits-not-that-im-aware-maamgood 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/voltaire/quote/what-we-find-in-books-is-like-the-fire-in-our-hearths-we-fetch-it-from-our-neighbors-we-kindle-it-at-home-we-communicate-it-to-others-and-it-becomes-the-property-of-all 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/aryami-boses-home-had-been-closed-up-for-years-inhabited-only-by-books-and-paintings-but-the-spectre-of-thousands-of-memories-imprisoned-between-its-walls-still-permeated-the-house 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leland-ryken/quote/it-is-untrue-that-fiction-is-nonutilitarian-the-uses-of-fiction-are-synonymous-with-the-uses-of-literature-they-include-refreshment-clarification-of-life-self-awareness-expansion-of-our-range 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathan-raban/quote/books-admitted-me-to-their-world-open-handedly-as-people-for-their-most-part-did-not-the-life-i-lived-in-books-was-one-of-ease-and-freedom-worldly-wisdom-glitter-dash-and-style 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/natalie-valdes/quote/there-had-been-a-computer-he-had-also-built-himself-on-the-farthest-corner-of-the-room-but-he-had-sold-that-a-couple-of-months-ago-to-buy-me-a-necklace-i-wore-it-then-it-was-two-silver-hearts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-fine/quote/living-your-life-is-a-long-and-doggy-business-and-stories-and-books-help-some-help-you-with-the-living-itself-some-help-you-just-take-a-break-the-best-do-both-at-the-same-time 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kerri-maniscalco/quote/i-will-gladly-accept-any-and-all-books-however-a-person-can-never-have-too-much-reading-material-especially-on-a-fall-or-winter-evening-if-youre-feeling-extra-generous-you-may-include-tea-i-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keira-michelle-telford/quote/books-long-to-be-read-as-we-humans-long-to-be-loved 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tonu-onnepalu/quote/there-is-no-literature-anymore-there-are-just-single-books-that-arrive-in-bookstores-just-as-letters-newspapers-advertising-pamphlets-arrive-in-mailboxes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/melody-lee/quote/i-love-the-echoes-of-a-home-filled-to-the-rim-with-poetry-books-and-art 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-dickens/quote/and-he-glanced-at-the-backs-of-the-books-with-an-awakened-curiosity-that-went-below-the-binding-no-one-who-can-read-ever-looks-at-a-book-even-unopened-on-a-shelf-like-one-who-cannot 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/dont-look-at-me-like-that-said-ruzalike-whatlike-im-a-beautiful-book-youre-about-to-open-and-plunder-with-your-greedy-mad-eyes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-dirda/quote/despite-the-rising-popularity-of-the-downloadable-e-text-i-still-care-about-physical-books-gravitate-to-handsome-editions-and-pretty-dust-jackets-and-enjoy-seeing-rows-of-hardcovers-on-my-she 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/millie-florence/quote/books-i-think-are-what-magic-smells-like 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/melody-lee/quote/her-skin-smells-of-vintage-books-and-pale-moonlight-exotic-things-forbidden-loves-and-rainy-nights 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/israelmore-ayivor/quote/you-cant-give-what-you-dont-have-to-write-you-must-read-to-write-well-read-well 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/israelmore-ayivor/quote/you-dont-become-a-good-writer-overnight-it-takes-persistence-and-repetition-to-gain-mastery 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/israelmore-ayivor/quote/you-may-receive-a-pie-eat-it-and-forget-you-may-receive-champagne-drink-it-and-forget-but-when-you-receive-a-book-you-can-open-it-again-and-again 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/lailah-gifty/quote/there-are-many-books-but-one-holy-book-the-holy-bible 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tapan-ghosh/quote/if-you-only-read-books-how-will-you-read-the-scripture-inside-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/harper-lee/quote/something-is-wrong-with-me-its-something-about-me-it-has-to-be-me-because-all-those-people-cannot-have-changed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/harper-lee/quote/he-was-letting-you-break-your-icons-one-by-one-he-was-letting-you-reduce-him-to-the-status-of-a-human-being 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jung-myung-lee/quote/books-were-cities-id-never-visited-filled-with-pillars-of-great-thoughts-and-streets-of-phrases-mazes-of-abstruse-sentence-structures-and-alleys-of-complicated-syllables-they-were-stores-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/but-one-cant-be-irredeemable-who-shows-reverence-for-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-k-lane/quote/think-of-these-books-as-doors-open-them-and-let-their-ideas-stir-your-mind-study-them-and-they-become-weapons 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brynne-barnes/quote/it-plumps-up-your-thinker-and-fills-up-your-heart-and-where-you-end-up-is-not-where-you-start 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tessa-dare/quote/the-love-of-books-was-an-instant-connection-and-a-true-boon-for-a-girl-who-tended-toward-shyness-because-it-was-a-source-of-endless-conversation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/katarina-bivald/quote/it-was-in-many-ways-her-dream-bookshop-not-least-because-all-the-books-had-already-been-readbooks-that-had-already-been-read-were-the-best 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/quote/this-book-is-a-story-and-like-all-stories-it-should-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-salt 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adele-rose/quote/its-tough-but-if-you-want-to-survive-sometimes-you-have-to-do-the-seemingly-impossible 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tania-de-rozario/quote/i-am-a-wall-i-am-a-wall-i-am-a-wall-i-am-a-giant-and-i-tower-above-you-i-am-a-giant-and-i-cant-hear-your-voice-there-is-familiarity-in-this-i-spent-years-like-this-growing-up-my-mother-hoveri 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/victoria-schwab/quote/yeah-i-mean-most-people-want-to-escape-get-out-of-their-heads-out-of-their-lives-stories-are-the-easiest-way-to-do-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nayyirah-waheed/quote/as-a-childthere-was-eitherbooksorpaini-chose-books-how-i-became-a-writer 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/quote/i-felt-convinced-that-however-it-might-have-been-in-former-times-in-the-present-stage-of-the-world-no-mans-faculties-could-be-developed-no-mans-moral-principle-be-enlarged-and-liberal-without 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/you-should-read-this-book-almost-never-simply-means-you-should-read-this-book-it-is-usually-far-more-fraught-telling-someone-what-to-read-even-asking-politely-can-feel-more-like-an-entreaty-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/choosing-a-book-is-so-gratifying-its-worth-dragging-out-the-process-starting-even-before-finishing-the-current-one-as-the-final-chapters-approach-you-can-pile-up-the-possibilities-like-a-stac 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/eudora-welty/quote/two-by-two-i-read-library-books-as-fast-as-i-could-go-rushing-them-home-in-the-basket-of-my-bicycle-from-the-minute-i-reached-our-house-i-started-to-read-every-book-i-seized-on-stood-for-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/graham-swift/quote/and-books-she-knew-by-then-were-one-of-the-necessities-the-rocks-of-her-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ernest-agyemang-yeboah/quote/the-book-you-read-and-read-well-over-and-over-again-lives-in-you-becomes-your-thought-and-thinking-pattern-teaches-you-all-the-time-and-keeps-reminding-you-about-how-to-act-and-react-towards- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/derek-thompson/quote/initially-my-favorite-books-seem-to-immerse-me-in-another-life-but-ultimately-they-immerse-me-in-me-i-am-looking-through-the-window-into-another-persons-home-but-it-is-my-face-that-i-see-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/je-allen/quote/with-its-reverent-silence-the-library-was-as-close-to-a-religious-experience-as-anything-he-had-ever-encountered-its-domed-reading-room-was-a-thing-of-sheer-beauty-and-wonder-it-always-inspir 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sunil-yapa/quote/victor-of-course-never-failed-to-fire-a-monster-joint-on-these-underground-missions-and-there-he-would-sit-reading-he-liked-how-those-books-made-him-feel-the-books-and-the-weed-his-brain-humm 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/blaque-diamond/quote/michelle-since-the-first-day-i-met-you-i-knew-you-were-the-one-for-me-i-knew-that-i-would-make-you-my-wife-i-love-waking-up-to-your-beautiful-face-every-morning-and-seeing-you-before-i-close- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-maria-dominguez/quote/it-is-often-much-harder-to-get-rid-of-books-than-it-is-to-acquire-them-they-stick-to-us-in-that-pact-of-need-and-oblivion-we-make-with-them-witnesses-to-a-moment-in-our-lives-we-will-never-se 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/faiqa-mansab/quote/you-taught-me-to-think-and-you-put-ideas-in-my-head-people-read-to-forget-books-dont-change-the-world-ji-you-didnt-tell-me-that-you-talked-of-the-dignity-of-the-human-spirit-to-a-hijra 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gail-honeyman/quote/you-cant-have-too-much-dog-in-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rick-gekoski/quote/what-is-so-addictive-about-fiction-is-that-it-is-the-one-reliable-place-in-which-we-can-apprehend-and-participate-in-fully-understand-the-inward-world-of-another-person 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/few-things-leave-a-deeper-mark-on-a-reader-than-the-first-book-that-finds-its-way-into-his-heart-those-first-images-the-echo-of-words-we-think-have-left-behind-accompany-us-throughout-our-liv 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-benjamin/quote/genuine-polemics-approach-a-book-as-lovingly-as-a-cannibal-spices-a-baby 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bob-smith/quote/books-have-been-vastly-important-in-my-life-as-both-a-reader-and-a-writer-ive-learned-that-the-great-gift-of-literature-is-that-someone-elses-tale-becomes-a-chapter-of-your-story-and-i-still- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christina-engela/quote/villainessa-tittel-was-a-hired-killer-an-assassin-by-trade-she-had-enjoyed-the-best-education-and-had-been-trained-by-assassins-who-had-until-then-at-least-been-considered-the-best-in-the-bus 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-e-smith/quote/but-it-was-different-somehow-to-be-reading-it-here-where-the-actual-events-had-taken-place-all-those-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-ago-that-was-the-thing-about-books-she-was-realizing-they-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/helen-oyeyemi/quote/lucy-happily-settled-down-to-work-first-she-sent-for-papyrus-and-handmade-a-book-leaf-by-leaf-binding-the-leaves-together-between-board-covers-then-she-filled-each-page-from-memory-drew-engli 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/claire-north/quote/what-is-the-purpose-of-history-it-seeds-only-hate-all-the-history-books-should-be-burnt-so-that-we-are-no-longer-the-peoples-of-our-lands-but-merely-peoples 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcel-proust/quote/this-book-of-mine-has-not-been-manufactured-it-has-been-garnered 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sc-parris/quote/there-is-special-power-in-that-sword-ewer-went-on-the-gem-in-the-guard-of-the-ares-holds-the-blood-of-the-creature-that-has-been-slain-by-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adam-gidwitz/quote/and-i-read-something-else-jacob-goes-on-there-was-this-discussion-of-the-story-of-cain-and-abel-from-the-bible-after-cain-kills-his-brother-god-says-the-bloods-of-your-brother-call-out-to-me- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/he-was-a-far-more-voracious-reader-than-me-but-he-made-it-a-rule-never-to-touch-a-book-by-any-author-who-had-not-been-dead-at-least-30-years-thats-the-only-kind-of-book-i-can-trust-he-saidits 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cs-lewis/quote/for-i-need-not-remind-such-an-audience-as-this-that-the-neat-sorting-out-of-books-into-age-groups-so-dear-to-publishers-has-only-a-very-sketchy-relation-with-the-habits-of-any-real-readers-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-colgan/quote/they-were-probably-reading-on-their-tablets-said-nina-loyally-she-loved-her-e-reader-too-yes-i-know-said-the-man-but-i-couldnt-see-i-couldnt-see-what-they-were-reading-or-ask-them-if-it-was-g 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/books-gnaw-at-me-from-around-the-edges-of-my-life-demanding-more-time-and-attention-i-am-always-left-hungry 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gideon-defoe/quote/they-both-fell-silent-for-a-while-the-only-sound-they-could-hear-was-the-noise-of-books-resting-on-shelves-which-wasnt-really-enough-of-a-sound-to-distract-them-from-the-awkwardness-of-the-mo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/before-every-elementary-school-classroom-had-a-drop-everything-and-read-period-before-parents-and-educators-agonized-more-about-children-being-glued-to-call-of-duty-or-getting-sucked-into-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-ayoade/quote/even-so-called-short-novels-are-pretty-long-and-can-take-several-hours-to-read-so-make-sure-you-stay-hydrated-i-like-to-keep-an-isotonic-sports-drink-handy-if-im-going-to-be-reading-for-any-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/barista-uno/quote/i-was-driven-to-go-into-book-writing-by-the-very-nature-of-journalism-and-blogging-both-are-ephemeral-journalists-and-bloggers-can-have-humongous-egos-but-in-the-end-what-they-write-is-really 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-burr-gerrard/quote/men-do-everything-that-men-do-from-waging-war-to-reading-books-for-one-purpose-only-to-get-laid 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/franz-kafka/quote/and-thus-it-happens-that-the-reader-the-closer-he-comes-to-the-novels-end-the-more-he-wishes-he-were-back-in-the-summer-with-which-it-begins-and-finally-instead-of-following-the-hero-onto-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charlie-lovett/quote/king-arthurs-knights-had-been-the-first-book-arthur-had-read-late-at-night-under-the-covers-with-a-torchit-was-he-supposed-thinking-back-on-it-the-first-book-that-had-showed-him-what-reading- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabrielle-dubois/quote/desire-may-cease-once-the-desired-person-or-object-is-acquired-the-desire-of-reading-doesnt-cease-once-a-book-is-read-however-extraordinary-this-one-was 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siri-hustvedt/quote/every-reader-writes-the-book-he-or-she-reads-supplying-what-isnt-there-and-that-creative-invention-becomes-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexander-pope/quote/oh-let-me-live-my-own-and-die-so-too-to-live-and-die-is-all-i-have-to-do-maintain-a-poets-dignity-and-ease-and-see-what-friends-and-read-what-books-i-please 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/whenever-one-of-us-introduced-an-old-favorite-we-savored-the-others-first-delight-like-a-shared-meal-eaten-with-a-newly-acquired-gusto-as-if-wed-never-truly-tasted-it-before 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/all-of-us-are-writers-reading-other-peoples-writing-turning-pages-or-clicking-to-the-next-screen-with-pleasure-and-admiration-all-of-us-absorb-other-peoples-words-feeling-like-we-have-gotten- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-paul/quote/to-whom-do-books-belong-the-books-we-read-and-the-books-we-write-are-both-ours-and-not-ours-theyre-also-theirs 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cath-crowley/quote/i-love-lying-here-with-you-under-the-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/we-also-wish-to-make-it-absolutely-clear-that-librarians-should-not-attempt-to-use-the-library-to-transport-dinosaur-eggs-and-if-they-do-disregard-this-rule-under-no-circumstances-should-they 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cassandra-clare/quote/kieranhis-head-propped-on-a-stack-of-poetry-books-hed-brought-from-the-library-almost-all-of-them-had-been-inscribed-on-the-inside-cover-by-a-james-herondale-who-had-neatly-written-out-his-fa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sebastien-de-castell/quote/its-stories-that-inspire-people-to-change-its-stories-that-make-them-believe-things-can-be-better 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bradley/quote/books-make-the-soul-float 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ann-hood/quote/the-idea-of-the-book-that-matters-most-kiki-said-because-i-think-its-like-impossible-to-pick-such-a-book-when-you-read-a-book-and-who-you-are-when-you-read-it-makes-it-matter-or-not-like-if-y 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kilroy-j-oldster/quote/literature-supplements-the-lives-of-people-and-enables-us-to-feel-connected-with-the-world-shared-stories-blunt-a-sense-of-tragic-aloneness-and-endow-us-with-the-tools-to-understand-our-human 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roger-duvoisin/quote/but-suddenly-pentunia-spied-the-book-the-firecrackers-had-blown-it-open-so-that-the-pages-showed-she-had-never-seen-them-before-now-she-saw-that-there-was-something-written-inside-the-book-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richelle-e-goodrich/quote/hey-pretty-book-why-dont-you-lie-in-my-lap-awhile 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laurie-frankel/quote/part-of-dedicating-your-life-to-studying-literature-is-realizing-that-storytelling-is-more-than-just-make-believe-and-that-make-believe-is-far-more-important-that-we-all-pretend-make-believe- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/r-ys-perez/quote/sleeping-with-books-is-a-vicious-affair-i-do-not-believe-it-will-ever-stop 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tsukumizu/quote/better-watch-her-she-burns-other-peoples-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/han-nolan/quote/i-reached-out-and-placed-my-hand-on-the-book-and-thought-maybe-someday-i-wouldnt-need-the-bruises-or-the-scars-anymore-maybe-someday-it-would-be-all-right-for-the-scars-to-go-away 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-kleypas/quote/books-were-everywhere-lined-neatly-on-shelves-that-went-from-floor-to-ceiling-the-ceiling-was-two-stories-high-with-an-upper-balcony-that-provided-access-to-a-second-floor-gallery-the-dazzlin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-kleypas/quote/a-poor-man-needs-the-escape-far-more-than-a-wealthy-man-doesescape-amanda-repeated-having-never-heard-a-book-described-in-such-a-wayyes-something-to-transport-your-mind-from-where-and-who-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/riley-redgate/quote/it-was-impossible-to-feel-alone-in-a-room-full-of-favorite-books-i-had-the-sense-that-they-knew-me-personally-that-theyd-read-me-cover-to-cover-as-id-read-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/philip-seymour-hoffman/quote/i-think-part-of-why-i-have-so-many-books-around-me-and-why-i-read-every-day-is-because-i-mythologize-the-writer-i-dont-do-that-with-any-other-artists 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich/quote/in-the-books-i-find-the-thrum-of-everything-unsayable-the-characters-weep-the-way-i-want-to-love-the-way-i-want-to-cry-die-beat-their-breasts-and-bray-with-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caroline-george/quote/if-a-boy-can-manage-to-have-coffee-with-me-during-the-apocalypse-i-know-he-cares-theres-not-a-speck-of-doubt-in-my-mind-he-must-care 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-finkel/quote/he-pilfered-a-copy-of-ulysses-but-it-was-possibly-the-one-book-he-did-not-finish-whats-the-point-of-it-i-suspect-it-was-a-bit-of-a-joke-by-joyce-he-just-kept-his-mouth-shut-as-people-read-int 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deyth-banger/quote/self-help-books-are-for-bitchesss 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/he-was-a-far-more-voracious-reader-than-me-but-he-made-it-a-rule-to-never-touch-a-book-by-any-author-who-had-not-been-dead-at-least-30-years-thats-the-only-kind-of-book-i-can-trust-he-saidits 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-lynn-barnes/quote/feeling-like-she-really-was-just-seven-or-eight-claire-sat-down-on-the-floor-books-all-around-her-and-she-opened-the-last-one-shed-picked-up-even-though-it-was-dark-and-even-though-her-eyes-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jk-rowling/quote/he-wanted-to-be-stopped-to-be-dragged-back-to-be-sent-back-home-but-he-was-home-hogwarts-was-the-first-and-best-home-he-had-known-he-and-voldemort-and-snape-the-abandoned-boys-had-all-found-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-finkel/quote/knights-disdain-for-thoreau-was-bottomless-he-had-no-deep-insight-into-nature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caroline-george/quote/youre-different-and-i-know-thats-probably-the-most-cliche-response-ever-given-but-its-the-truth-when-i-look-at-you-its-as-if-im-reading-a-novel-no-matter-how-much-time-i-spend-studying-your-p 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-finkel/quote/the-only-book-knight-didnt-steal-was-the-one-he-most-often-saw-i-had-no-need-for-a-bible-he-said 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hisham-matar/quote/and-i-remember-this-man-who-never-ran-out-of-poems-telling-me-once-that-knowing-a-book-by-heart-is-like-carrying-a-house-inside-your-chest 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kakuzo-okakura/quote/nothing-is-more-hallowing-than-the-union-of-kindred-spirits-in-art-at-the-moment-of-meeting-the-art-lover-transcends-himself-at-once-he-is-and-is-not-he-catches-a-glimpse-of-infinity-freed-fr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paula-gruben/quote/thank-god-for-books-for-validating-your-feelings-and-letting-you-know-youre-not-alone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-knox/quote/books-can-be-the-people-we-never-get-to-meet-ancestors-or-far-neighbors 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ben-affleck/quote/see-the-sad-thing-about-a-guy-like-you-is-in-50-years-youre-gonna-start-doin-some-thinkin-on-your-own-and-youre-going-to-come-up-with-the-fact-that-there-are-two-certainties-in-life-one-dont- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walt-disney-company/quote/i-have-big-dreams-too-i-used-to-think-that-made-me-different-and-strange-but-when-i-came-here-and-found-all-these-books-i-realized-there-are-places-in-the-world-where-i-belong-even-if-i-haven 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/books-and-bookcases-cropping-up-in-stuff-that-ive-written-means-that-they-have-to-be-reproduced-on-stage-or-on-film-this-isnt-as-straightforward-as-it-might-seem-a-designer-will-either-presen 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelly-g-wilson/quote/dont-let-the-covers-fool-you-books-like-lives-are-wiggling-evolving-living-things-theyre-not-bound-by-pages-or-authors-or-schools-of-thought-theyre-not-born-when-theyre-printed-in-fact-they-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deyth-banger/quote/i-collected-speech-from-so-called-smart-genius-nation-the-judge-is-going-to-be-made-from-you-dont-worry-notes-of-a-dead-man-sequel-are-going-to-be-one-damn-long-journey 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paula-gruben/quote/its-such-a-relief-to-know-these-are-universal-truths-for-so-many-of-us-in-the-adoption-triad-gosh-how-much-easier-things-could-have-been-for-you-for-me-and-your-folks-if-literature-like-this- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paula-gruben/quote/im-so-glad-to-hear-you-are-a-reader-and-you-found-these-books-to-help-you-work-through-things-on-your-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paula-gruben/quote/for-all-her-faults-it-was-actually-my-mom-who-instilled-in-me-a-love-of-reading-and-books-for-which-i-will-always-be-grateful-shes-a-complete-bibliophile-so-ive-pretty-much-grown-up-around-li 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nadege-richards/quote/dont-judge-me-by-my-books-theyre-not-my-voices-and-they-were-never-my-stories-to-tell 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yukiya-murasaki/quote/well-actually-just-read-any-books-you-find-interesting-will-do-even-books-that-seem-boring-arent-actually-that-dull-its-just-that-the-reader-couldnt-find-the-interesting-parts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caroline-george/quote/after-the-end-of-the-world-there-is-a-world-life-doesnt-stop-it-changes-and-it-changes-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/as-for-fairy-tales-he-understood-that-they-were-reflections-of-the-people-who-had-spun-them-and-were-flecked-with-little-truths-intrusions-of-reality-into-fantasy-like-toast-crumbs-on-a-wizar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/on-the-occasions-that-he-did-look-up-from-the-page-he-would-seem-as-though-he-were-awakening-from-a-dream 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/he-wasnt-an-alchemist-or-a-hero-he-was-a-librarian-and-a-dreamer-he-was-a-reader-and-the-unsung-expert-on-a-long-lost-city-no-one-cared-a-thing-about 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/it-was-a-different-life-out-here-but-make-no-mistake-lazlo-was-every-bit-the-dreamer-he-had-always-been-if-not-more-he-might-have-left-his-books-but-he-carried-all-his-stories-with-him 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laini-taylor/quote/even-if-it-was-just-walls-and-a-roof-with-papers-inside-it-had-bewitched-him-and-drawn-him-in-and-given-him-everything-he-needed-to-become-himself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-gale/quote/he-was-not-a-scholar-his-brain-seemed-too-sluggish-or-too-dreamy-to-grasp-the-things-demanded-of-it-but-he-was-never-happier-than-when-left-alone-among-books-and-would-spend-hours-turning-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/milena-busquets/quote/you-can-tell-if-someone-really-loves-books-by-the-way-they-look-at-them-how-they-open-and-close-them-how-they-turn-the-pages 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/merilyn-simonds/quote/my-books-are-my-brain-and-my-heart-made-visible 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/trudy-wallis/quote/a-library-bears-similar-qualities-to-a-hospital-librarians-are-like-doctors-books-the-prescriptions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wendell-berry/quote/books-were-a-dependable-pleasure-i-read-more-then-than-i-ever-was-able-to-read-again-until-now-when-i-am-too-old-to-work-much-and-am-mostly-alone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-ayoub/quote/but-sir-im-seventeen-i-reply-bluntly-im-genetically-programmed-to-want-to-make-statements 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-quindlen/quote/crusoe-and-friday-ishmael-and-ahab-daisy-and-gatsby-pip-and-estella-me-me-me-i-am-not-alone-i-am-surrounded-by-words-that-tell-me-who-i-am-why-i-feel-what-i-feel-or-maybe-they-just-help-me-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/trudy-wallis/quote/and-the-treasure-a-library-card-key-to-all-the-doors-in-the-story-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anna-quindlen/quote/in-books-i-have-traveled-not-only-to-other-worlds-but-into-my-own-i-learned-who-i-was-and-who-i-wanted-to-be-what-i-might-aspire-to-and-what-i-might-dare-to-dream-about-my-world-and-myself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/milan-kundera/quote/a-young-woman-forced-to-keep-drunks-supplied-with-beer-and-siblings-with-cleanunderwear-instead-of-being-allowed-to-pursue-something-higher-stores-up-greatreserves-of-vitality-a-vitality-neve 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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