“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t like this.… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent.… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And dust jacket is a strange name… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
