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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?

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'm really wary of self-help books.

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.

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

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.