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Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)

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"not ready for how emotionally attached im about to become (picturing vanessa as ripley is definitely not helping)" — Jan 05, 2026 04:25PM

Jan 05, 2026 04:24PM

That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn’t move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.

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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

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