--- title: "1 Books Men Quotes By Paul Collins" description: "1 Books Men quotes by Paul Collins. Plus more from Paul Collins and more Books Men sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/paul-collins-28940_book_it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think_1375852.jpg" --- > [“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 can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think-of-the-people-who-have-no/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/paul-collins-28940_book_it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think_1375852.jpg) ## More by Paul Collins > [“What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/what-you-mean-to-find-matters-less-than-what-you-do-find/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/curb-your-fretting-tadpole-or-the-frog-of-your-future-will-fail-to/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/autists-are-the-ultimate-square-pegs-and-the-problem-with-pounding-a/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“…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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/i-had-a-good-title-already-my-book-was-originally-called-loser-a/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/generally-when-a-man-is-rabidly-for-one-cause-and-then-is-just-as/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/if-a-book-cover-has-raised-lettering-metallic-lettering-or-raised/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/if-you-grew-up-in-a-rural-area-you-have-seen-how-farmhouses-come-and/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/i-sometimes-wonder-whether-century-old-ruins-look-so-beautiful-to-us/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/but-above-all-an-author-must-write-passionately-and-edit-passionately/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/it-really-is-an-appalling-thing-to-think-of-the-people-who-have-no/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/think-of-it-a-disability-is-usually-defined-in-terms-of-what-is/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/historically-dust-jackets-are-a-new-concern-for-authors-you-don-t-see/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“A future owned by yellow journalism was not one most reporters wished to contemplate. Some libraries had already barred the "World" and the "Journal"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/a-future-owned-by-yellow-journalism-was-not-one-most-reporters-wished/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/leatherbound-books-are-an-expensive-form-of-wallpaper-and-yet-every/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) > [“Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/put-the-penis-schematic-away-he-told-the-coroner/) [Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-men/paul-collins/#itemlist", "name": "1 Books Men Quotes By Paul Collins", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. 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