Books Quote by Manuel Puig

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are…

— John Grisham

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than…

— Morris Gleitzman

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

— Zadie Smith

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn…

— Jonathan Coe

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

— Cheryl Strayed

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in…

— Isabel Allende

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the…

— Douglas Adams

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

— Anonymous

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

— Laurie Halse Anderson