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I really can’t explain how excited I was when I discovered the part of Instagram that’s all about book lovers.
I’ve made some amazing friends in the Bookstagram community, and it’s honestly been one of the best experiences for me.
If you’re active on Bookstagram or thinking of ideas for your captions, one thing that always works is book quotes.
Or maybe you just want something to make your aesthetic pop – in that case, book quotes are perfect for that too.
In this post, I’ve listed some very cute, very lovely book quotes that are great for Instagram.
Personally, I think the best ones are quotes about reading or loving books.
But really, the best quotes are the ones you pull directly from the books you’re reading.
So if you’re writing a review for a book on Instagram, include a quote that stood out to you or tie it in with another quote, maybe even one from this list!
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King, On Writing
“A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” – Marcel Proust
“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” – Virginia Woolf
“A house without books is like a room without windows.” – Horace Mann
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” – James Baldwin
“Books may well be the only true magic.” – Alice Hoffman
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.” – Maya Angelou
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen
“There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.” – Emily Dickinson
“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P. Whipple
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – René Descartes
“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” – Jeanette Winterson
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“No two persons ever read the same book.” – Edmund Wilson
“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” – Desiderius Erasmus
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” – Alan Bennett
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice.” – Paul Auster
“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.” – Walter Pater
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” – Fernando Pessoa
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
“Reading means borrowing time from paradise.” – Thomas Wharton
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard
“Books were my pass to personal freedom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” – Samuel Butler
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“Books don’t just go with you, they take you where you’ve never been.” – Anonymous
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.” – Joanne Harris
“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” – Rebecca Solnit
“Books were safer than other people anyway.” – Neil Gaiman
“Books make great friends – they ask no questions, they pass no judgments.” – David Levithan
“Reading is an act of resistance.” – Roxane Gay
“A book is a door. You open it. You step through.” – Jeanette Winterson
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green
“Books were my armor. Everything I read made me feel less alone.” – Patricia Lockwood
“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.” – Cornelia Funke
“A library is infinity under a roof.” – Gail Carson Levine
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.” – Anne Tyler
“Every book is a new beginning. Every story is a chance to start over.” – Nina George
“You don’t just read a book, you inhabit it.” – Rainbow Rowell
“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?” – Patrick Ness
“Reading is the inhale. Writing is the exhale.” – Justina Chen
“Books were my sanctuary. I could crawl into the pages and disappear.” – Tahereh Mafi
“Books are a way to hold someone else’s mind in your hands.” – Robin Sloan
Do you think you’ll be using any of these quotes on your Bookstagram?
Let me know in the comments below!
And if you’re looking to make more Bookstagram friends, drop your username in the comments – let’s all follow each other!
