--- title: "10 Books Living Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Books Living quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Books Living sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/holly-black-329_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-th_1676466.png" --- > [It is my belief that books are living things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-black/it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-things/) [Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-black/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/holly-black-329_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-th_1676466.png) > [“God is Change. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-e-butler/god-is-change-earthseed-the-books-of-the-living-lauren-oya-olamina/) [Octavia E. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-e-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/octavia-e-butler-2861_books_god-is-change-earthseed-the-books-of-the_1263604.jpg) > [“Book Hangover - The inability to start a new books because you're still living in the last book's world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/book-hangover-the-inability-to-start-a-new-books-because-you-re-still/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ace/anonymous-1_book_book-hangover-the-inability-to-start-a-n_541462.jpg) > [“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-wells/books-are-living-things-with-blood-and-bones-and-it-breaks-our-heart/) [Rebecca Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd9/rebecca-wells-2803_books_books-are-living-things-with-blood-and-b_609130.png) > [Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/nothing-mattered-but-writing-books-and-living-the-kind-of-life-that/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f9/willa-cather-634_book_nothing-mattered-but-writing-books-and-l_51226.png) > [Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liv-ullmann/books-have-always-been-living-things-to-me-some-of-my-encounters-with/) [Liv Ullmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liv-ullmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/liv-ullmann-12443_answers_books-have-always-been-living-things-to_904055.jpg) > [“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-conroy/books-are-living-things-and-their-task-lies-in-their-vows-of-silence/) [Pat Conroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-conroy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/pat-conroy-768_book_books-are-living-things-and-their-task-l_2868829.jpg) > [“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-lebbon/all-her-life-she-had-known-that-books-were-living-things-not-just-a/) [Tim Lebbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-lebbon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd8/tim-lebbon-11282_book_all-her-life-she-had-known-that-books-we_2253001.jpg) > [“I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-had-come-at-last-in-the-course-of-this-rambling-to-the-shelves/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/virginia-woolf-49_books_i-had-come-at-last-in-the-course-of-this_2572513.jpg) > [“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-charles-swinburne/the-half-brained-creature-to-whom-books-are-other-than-living-things/) [Algernon Charles Swinburne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-charles-swinburne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db4/algernon-charles-swinburne-291_book_the-half-brained-creature-to-whom-books_301829.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-living/#itemlist", "name": "Books Living Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is my belief that books are living things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Holly Black" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-black/it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-things/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/holly-black-329_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-th_1676466.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/holly-black-329_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-th_1676466.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/906/holly-black-329_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-books-are-living-th_1676466.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is my belief that books are living things.” — Holly Black", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“God is Change. 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