Big Quote by Walter Kirn

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more…

— Virginia Woolf

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

— Justin Cronin

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big,…

— Larry Winget

I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.

— Mark Manson

Books are men of higher stature.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can…

— Stephan Pastis

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

Books are often far more than just books.

— Roxane Gay