“The book is a different book for each one,” he said. “The book is an encounter of two silences, and two imaginations. So it’s the silence of the writer, and the silence of the reader.”

 “When I wrote the book, I said that it was for helping others,” says Luiz Schwarcz of his memoir. “Then I realized it’s mainly for me.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/books/memoir-depression-luiz-schwarcz.html