“I look at every book as a self-help book.”
“Fiction is the best the self-help book.”
“If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.”
“The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could.”
“My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.”
“I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.”