Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
Books are finished.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
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 make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.