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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 never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

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.

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.

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.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

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.