The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

In books, both fiction and nonfiction, what matters is not what happens in the book but how is it is told. By virtue of living, we experience facets of the human experience. How we experience those facets and what we take away from them are both fascinating because they are uniquely ours (because there is no other person exactly like each of us on the planet, and no one who will respond exactly the same way) and because it is universally human. Thus, it does not so much matter what you write about, but how you choose to write and what messages you share. To aspiring writers: I hope you will remember that there is magic and beauty in your experiences and perspectives simply because they are yours.

I think that, for the most part, I've have always tried to keep my focus on telling a story without worrying about what it might mean to others. ... Some people really write towards having a message. And, for me it's always been, when someone says, 'What is your book about?' — if I could say to them what my book was about in a few sentences, that book would be a failure — for sure.

But the act of reading a book is really about you and what you get from it. All that matters is what you do with the ideas, no matter the source. Apply them to your own life in your own way. It was never about them. It’s about you.

Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

The more it matters who said it, the less it actually matters.

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

إن الكتب نفسها ليست في أهمية الأفكار والمعرفة التي تحتويها،

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.

A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally.