"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
"A book without a preface is like a body without a soul." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"Reading poetry in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"Those who have no taste are incurable. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Television has raised writing to a new low." ~~ Samuel Goldwyn
"If he is a fighter, he is no writer; if a writer, no fighter." ~~ Talmud, Avoda Zara
"We have books on morality enough and to spare, but so few men of morals. " ~~ Yosef Chaim Brenner
"The translator is a commentator, and every commentator also adds something of himself towards the deepening of the matter, its explanation and emphasis. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Make books your friends!" ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon