"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. " ~~ Albert Einstein
"The critic proclaims: “You should learn to write”, and the author answers: “You should learn to read.” " ~~ Chananya Reichman
"No man is wise without books. " ~~ Gevul Binyamin
"Spend your money on expensive books and you will get their worth in golden knowledge." ~~ Ben Shlomo Immanuel
"Books are meant not to be shelved, but to be studied." ~~ Sefer Chassidim
"The good translation is, to a certain extent, an artistic work more difficult than the original. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend. " ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"Those who have no taste are incurable. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Who is the person that bares his nakedness here and it is beheld everywhere? The man that writes something and errs in writing it." ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"If you change the language, you change the content." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon
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