Book quotes in images – 25 brilliant thoughts about books, visualized

Brilliant quotes about books, visualized

You’ll find in this post the best book quotes presented as images, so that you can easily share them on social media networks.

There is no such thing as too many books. And there is no such thing as too many ways to promote books.

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In the era of Pinterest and other picture driven social networks, one brilliant quote about books may have come unnoticed unless you turn it into the image, even the most decent one.

Quotes shared as images are one of the most popular kinds of content these days. Book quotes are among the best of the best. Why? Because they are the smartest ones.

The background text for all the quote images in this selection comes from Internet Archive’s online book reader of the wonderful book, The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, edited by Robert Maynard Leonard, and first published in 1911.

Share the great quotes about books, but this is not the end of adventure, right? Just open the next tab in your browser and you can start reading an ebook in a matter of few seconds. Find tons of ebooks, either for online reading or free download, from one of the sites with free public domain books.

Marsha Norman once wrote: “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” Below you’ll find the dreams imagined by the greatest minds.

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25 brilliant book quotes in images

1

The books we read answer questions we didn't even know existed. –Axel Marazzi

The books we read answer questions we didn’t even know existed.

–Axel Marazzi

2

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

–Benjamin Franklin

3

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. –Laura Bush

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision.

–Laura Bush

4

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. –Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

–Carlos Ruiz Zafón

5

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. –David Mitchell

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

–David Mitchell

6

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki Murakami

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

–Haruki Murakami

7

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. –J.K. Rowling

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

–J.K. Rowling

8

In case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. –Mortimer Jerome Adler

In case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

–Mortimer Jerome Adler

9

A book holds a house of gold. –Chinese Proverb

A book holds a house of gold.

–Chinese Proverb

10

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. –Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

–Maya Angelou

11

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. –Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

–Mark Twain

12

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. –Oscar Wilde

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

–Oscar Wilde

13

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. –Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

–Logan Pearsall Smith

14

The wise man reads both books and life itself. –Lin Yutang

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

–Lin Yutang

15

If a book is well written, I always find it too short. –Jane Austen

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

–Jane Austen

16

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. –Wystan Hugh Auden

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

–Wystan Hugh Auden

17

I am a part of everything that I have read. –Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.

–Theodore Roosevelt

18

If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you. –Terry Pratchett

If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.

–Terry Pratchett

19

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. –Austin Phelps

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

–Austin Phelps

20

We read books to find out who we are. –Ursula K. Le Guin

We read books to find out who we are.

–Ursula K. Le Guin

21

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. –Stéphane Mallarmé

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

–Stéphane Mallarmé

22

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. –Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

–Oscar Wilde

23

Are we not like two volumes of one book? –Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

–Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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