برابر فارسی واژهٔ «آتئیست»، «خداناباور» است و نه «ناخداباور»؛ زیرا «ناخداباور» یعنی کسی که به ناخدا باور دارد. (انصاری سمنانی، مهدی/شیدای سمنانی، مهرداد؛ هزاران جستار و نکته… دربارهٔ نویسندگی و ویرایش)
"I am a radical Atheist..." Adams in an interview by American Atheists . Spirituality, Halo or Hoax بایگانیشده در ۱ ژانویه ۲۰۱۲ توسط Wayback Machine - Javedakhtar.com, Spirituality, Halo or Hoax, 26 February 2005. "There are certain things that I would like to make very clear at the very outset. Don’t get carried away by my name – Javed Akhtar. I am not revealing a secret, I am saying something that I have said many times, in writing or on TV, in public...I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind. Some kind. "NDIA TODAY CONCLAVE - Saturday, February 26, 2005", retrieved April 4, 2012" "It is well known that I am not a religious person, I grew up and remain an atheist [...]". Tariq Ali, Interview: Tariq Ali بایگانیشده در ۳ ژوئیه ۲۰۰۷ توسط Wayback Machine, Socialist Review November 2006 (accessed April 22, 2008). "Once, filming in Italy with the American director John Huston and a US army crew, Ambler and his colleagues were shelled so fiercely that his unconscious 'played a nasty trick on him' (Ambler, Here Lies, 208). A confirmed atheist, he heard himself saying, 'Into thy hands I commend my spirit.' " Michael Barber: 'Ambler, Eric Clifford (1909–1998)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2007 (accessed April 29, 2008). "His son Martin, who led the ceremony, said: "His relationship with the Christian God was not entirely frictionless. In 1962 (the Russian poet) Yevtushenko asked him 'Are you an atheist?'. He replied: 'Well, yes - but it's more that I hate Him'." " John Ezard, 'Secular send-off for an 'old devil' who did not wans too much fuss over his funeral', The Guardian (London), October 23, 1996, p. 8.
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it... I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." Isaac Asimov in "Free Inquiry", Spring 1982, vol.2 no.2, p. 9 (See Wikiquote.) "Rather than tackle Baldwin's atheist stance, Malcolm found a point of departure on the question of identity, stating that he was "proud to be a black man."" Herb Boyd, Baldwin's Harlem: a biography of James Baldwin (2008), page 75.
Welch, Frances. "All Praise and Glory to the Mind of Man". Ballard confesses to being an atheist, but adds: "that said, I'm extremely interested in religion... I see religion as a key to all sorts of mysteries that surround the human consciousness."
"Maclean's interview: Julian Barnes". Maclean. October 29, 2008. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2013. Writer Julian Barnes talks to Kenneth Whyte about his atheism and saints, his parents and what makes for a best death.
"Evil and Me", Benford; in 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, ed. Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 157-60.
