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> [One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/one-of-the-many-things-i-love-about-bound-books-is-their-sheer/)

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> [“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/electronic-books-live-out-of-sight-and-out-of-mind-but-printed-books/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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> [“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/one-of-the-many-things-i-love-about-bound-books-is-their-sheer-2/)

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## More by Will Schwalbe

> [And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/and-my-first-item-on-each-day-s-list-is-this-wake-up-if-i-can-check/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/you-can-truly-miss-characters-not-like-you-miss-people-but-you-can/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/and-sister-and-father-and-mother-had-i-was-learning-that-when-you-re/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/hidden-away-the-people-of-the-streets-drift-into-sleep-induced-by/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/if-heathen-prayers-were-indeed-the-best-of-all-then-mine-should-count/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/in-gilead-the-narrator-s-friend-s-son-describes-himself-not-as-an/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had.” “What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-did-manage-to-read-some-pages-from-a-book-that-s-also-about-how/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-m-not-the-same-reader-when-i-finish-a-book-as-i-was-when-i-started/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/connelly-writes-as-long-as-there-is-paper-people-will-write-secretly/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/when-i-think-back-on-all-the-refugee-camps-i-visited-all-over-the/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“asked: “And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?” “Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/asked-and-i-was-very-surprised-by-the-ending-were-you-of-course-not-i/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/a-father-and-his-son-are-in-a-terrible-car-crash-the-father-is-killed/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/in-the-eyes-of-her-oldest-friends-and-colleagues-and-extended-family/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/i-like-books-i-don-t-read-them-but-i-like-them/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

> [“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/lahiri-s-characters-just-like-people-all-around-us-are-constantly/)

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