Big Book Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on… — Frank Zappa
Big book, a big bore. — Callimachus
In America, youâ€™re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to Godâ€™s big book of bad ideas. — Bill Maher
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. — Mick Foley
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those… — Samuel Johnson
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a… — Marguerite Young
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry. — Mae Whitman
I'd never have written the big books in London. — Jilly Cooper
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. — Terry Brooks
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the… — Michael Cunningham
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that… — William Glasser
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a… — Annie Dillard
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or… — Mick Foley
I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've… — Karl Pilkington
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers canâ€™t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind… — Jim C. Hines
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not… — Jules Verne
I am a big book collector. I love books. — Andrew Zuckerman

Who Wrote These Big Book Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Big Book Quotes as follows: