Big Book

Big Book may refer to:

  • The Big Book Of, a series of graphic novel anthologies published by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press.
  • A Big Book (thought experiment) involving ethics developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous)
  • The Big Read, a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Book" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or book:

    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss’s moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”
    —Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)