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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

I'm really wary of self-help books.

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.