“Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.' -Thaddeus” — Paul Collins Frog 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… — Paul Collins Autism 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… — Paul Collins Bad thing 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… — 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… — Paul Collins Book 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… — Paul Collins Book 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… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.” — Paul Collins Author 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… — Paul Collins Book Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about… — Paul Collins Autism 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… — Paul Collins Books 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… — Paul Collins Books 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… — Paul Collins Books Copy Share Image
“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when… — Paul Collins Beauty Copy Share Image
“Captain, sir,' called Coster from the rear of the shed. 'Cleared to shit.' 'Proceed,' Fa'ared called back. The Preceptor glared at Coster.… — Paul Collins Preceptor Copy Share Image
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.” — Paul Collins Books Copy Share Image
“You see, literary culture is perpetually dead and dying; and when some respected writer discovers and loudly proclaims the finality of this… — Paul Collins Ten years Copy Share Image
