Writer Quotes by Paul Collins

“What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.”

— Paul Collins

“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus”

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Paul Collins

“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.”

— 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…

— Paul Collins

“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is…

— 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…

— 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"…

— 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…

— Paul Collins

“Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.”

— Paul Collins