"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
"If you are a man of the sword, you can’t claim to be a man of the book; and if you are a man of the book, you will not be a man of the sword." ~~ Talmud, Avodah Zarah 17b
"Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text." ~~ Moshe Mendelssohn
"If you change the language, you change the content." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon
"A people’s only national literature is the one written in its national language." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book." ~~ Hai Gaon
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
"The shoe according to the foot and the style according to the contents." ~~ Reuven Breinin
"No artistan without tools, nor any scholar without books." ~~ Tsohar Hateiva
"If people knew the troubles that authors experience, they would not laugh on finding some little error in their books." ~~ Yehuda Ben Janach
"The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Literature is the safest key to a nation’s treasure. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
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