Angry Quote by Robert Greene

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…

— Vinny Guadagnino

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…

— Alain de Botton

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself…

— Gary Shteyngart

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

— Jane Smiley

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so…

— Phil Elverum

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so…

— Phil Elvrum

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished…

— Heidi Julavits

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

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

I look at every book as a self-help book.

— Marc Maron

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle