“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in control. This is a variation on that twee little fable… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
