--- title: "29 People Books Quotes by 28 authors" description: "Browse 29 People Books quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best People Books sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e2/jaggi-vasudev-693_book_people-call-books-holy-but-they-are-yet_1592473.png" --- > [People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaggi-vasudev/people-call-books-holy-but-they-are-yet-to-realize-that-life-is-holy/) [Jaggi Vasudev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaggi-vasudev/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e2/jaggi-vasudev-693_book_people-call-books-holy-but-they-are-yet_1592473.png) > [“Leaders read people more than books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alin-sav/leaders-read-people-more-than-books/) [Alin Sav](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alin-sav/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/513/alin-sav-821_leadership_leaders-read-people-more-than-books-1676_1676620.jpg) > [I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-care-more-about-the-people-in-books-than-the-people-i-see-every-day/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff0/jo-walton-7623_book_i-care-more-about-the-people-in-books-th_6299.jpg) > [People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/people-get-nothing-out-of-books-but-what-they-bring-to-them/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9da/george-bernard-shaw-68_book_people-get-nothing-out-of-books-but-what_2032257.png) > [“It's okay to bribe people with books, right?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/it-s-okay-to-bribe-people-with-books-right/) [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ba/eliezer-yudkowsky-1207_books_it-s-okay-to-bribe-people-with-books-rig_614413.png) > [Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-patterson/nowhere-will-you-meet-more-interesting-people-than-in-books/) [James Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-patterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/871/james-patterson-171_book_nowhere-will-you-meet-more-interesting-p_2508143.png) > [Books are not like people. Books are safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-erskine/books-are-not-like-people-books-are-safe/) [Kathryn Erskine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-erskine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0eb/kathryn-erskine-31340_book_books-are-not-like-people-books-are-safe_1485552.png) > [“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-morley/the-people-in-books-become-more-real-to-you-than-any-one-in-actual/) [Christopher Morley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-morley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/christopher-morley-2772_actual-life_the-people-in-books-become-more-real-to_3227598.png) > [We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-more/we-do-not-so-much-want-books-for-good-people-as-books-which-will-make/) [Hannah More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-more/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/757/hannah-more-2695_book_we-do-not-so-much-want-books-for-good-pe_2691898.png) > [Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/some-people-get-their-books-on-the-best-seller-list-and-then-they/) [Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a75/lorrie-moore-870_books_some-people-get-their-books-on-the-best_1497928.png) > [“He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cindy-thomson/he-was-an-average-looking-hard-working-fellow-who-was-more/) [Cindy Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cindy-thomson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbc/cindy-thomson-90370_books_he-was-an-average-looking-hard-working-f_1133521.jpg) > [“Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-schwab/da-thought-of-people-as-books-to-be-read-but-i-ve-always-thought-of/) [Victoria Schwab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-schwab/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ca/victoria-schwab-1505_books_da-thought-of-people-as-books-to-be-read_1669744.jpg) > [People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-fraser/people-in-my-books-tend-to-get-their-just-deserts-even-if-not-at-the/) [Antonia Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonia-fraser/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/antonia-fraser-14421_book_people-in-my-books-tend-to-get-their-jus_2549960.png) > [“Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-de-botton/importance-of-the-random-keep-brushing-up-against-people-books/) [Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-de-botton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/643/alain-de-botton-221_books_importance-of-the-random-keep-brushing-u_2128564.jpg) > [I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/i-have-spent-more-time-with-other-people-s-books-than-with-my-own-i/) [Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/italo-calvino-402_books_i-have-spent-more-time-with-other-people_1264888.jpg) > [“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-jones/people-are-the-same-except-for-the-books-they-read-and-the-people/) [Charlie Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/charlie-jones-87370_books_people-are-the-same-except-for-the-books_1235199.jpg) > [If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-patterson/if-you-re-not-reading-with-your-heart-as-well-as-your-brain-you-will/) [James Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-patterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/james-patterson-171_book_if-you-re-not-reading-with-your-heart-as_598940.jpg) > [Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/books-are-the-building-blocks-of-civilization-and-a-people-without/) [Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/louis-l-amour-876_block_books-are-the-building-blocks-of-civiliz_645810.jpg) > [Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-blume/books-opened-up-a-whole-new-world-to-me-through-them-i-discovered-new/) [Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-blume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33a/judy-blume-2002_book_books-opened-up-a-whole-new-world-to-me_2958848.png) > [Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-quigley/just-the-circumstances-of-being-in-d-c-people-give-you-books-and/) [Mike Quigley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-quigley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/mike-quigley-3276_about_just-the-circumstances-of-being-in-d-c-p_285473.jpg) > [“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-lendroth/i-ve-never-understood-the-desire-for-books-with-matched-bindings-you/) [Susan Lendroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-lendroth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e02/susan-lendroth-63752_book-lovers_i-ve-never-understood-the-desire-for-boo_1672777.jpg) > [“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-dalgliesh/what-the-future-held-for-her-she-didn-t-know-of-two-things-only-she/) [Alice Dalgliesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-dalgliesh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/alice-dalgliesh-71049_books_what-the-future-held-for-her-she-didn-t_120608.png) > [“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think-of-the-people-who-have-no/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/paul-collins-28940_book_it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think_1375852.jpg) > [Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-tey/most-people-s-first-books-are-their-best-anyways-it-s-the-one-they/) [Josephine Tey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-tey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/750/josephine-tey-12922_book_most-people-s-first-books-are-their-best_1937761.jpg) > [“I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/i-soon-developed-myopia-and-a-firm-belief-that-people-in-books-were/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a6/gloria-steinem-277_book_i-soon-developed-myopia-and-a-firm-belie_1969937.jpg) > [The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/the-odd-thing-about-people-who-had-many-books-was-how-they-always/) [Patricia A. McKillip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-a-mckillip/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/patricia-a-mckillip-5203_book_the-odd-thing-about-people-who-had-many_1526404.png) > [What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-seinfeld/what-is-this-obsession-people-have-with-books-they-put-them-in-their/) [Jerry Seinfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-seinfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/074/jerry-seinfeld-880_book_what-is-this-obsession-people-have-with_3087387.jpg) > [“Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-cullin/actually-it-is-amazing-how-much-can-be-learned-about-people-from-the/) [Mitch Cullin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-cullin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/mitch-cullin-29306_book_actually-it-is-amazing-how-much-can-be-l_2217083.jpg) > [“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-truman/i-love-books-i-really-really-love-them-there-s-something-special/) [Margaret Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-truman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5e/margaret-truman-69616_book_i-love-books-i-really-really-love-them-t_221611.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people-books/#itemlist", "name": "People Books Quotes", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaggi Vasudev" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaggi-vasudev/people-call-books-holy-but-they-are-yet-to-realize-that-life-is-holy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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