Sentence examples for depressed book from inspiring English sources

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this depressed book about depressed people -- most of whom, as youngish white male Londoners, bear a family resemblance to their author, and none of whom are treated by him with the slightest ironic distance -- is the work of a depressed man.

In the last year alone veteran editors have published two books -- Andre Schiffrin's "Business of Books" and Jason Epstein's more laconically titled (but less depressed) "Book Business" -- basically making the case that publishing is a hopeless enterprise.

During a particularly rainy week in Toronto, whenever a thunderstorm hits, Rose, a thirty-four-year-old who runs a dilapidated movie theatre, is transported out of her body and into that of Harriet, a beautiful and depressed book editor who is secretly pregnant by a married man.

(The James Wright poem "Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me" comes to mind).

Hurt and depressed by the book's reception, Irving retreated to Paris where he spent the next year worrying about finances and scribbling down ideas for projects that never materialized.

French also offers advice to would-be children's writers: Avoid writing depressing, hopeless books.

Reeves certainly doesn't seem depressed, but in his book he admits to some "puffed-up boldness" that "renders any brittleness invisible".

"I got very depressed away from the books and all the people," Ms. Watson recalled last week.

Writer Tim Lott, who suffered a severe depressive episode in his 30s and was successfully treated with anti-depressants, is one of those who believes Rowe's books can help depressed people to get better.

"People who are very depressed might not be able to read a book," Primack said.

It was always a good sign in books when people who had been depressed began eating again.