"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
"It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it — all the associations which a different word has." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Words should be weighed, not counted." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. " ~~ Benjamin Disraeli
"If he is a fighter, he is no writer; if a writer, no fighter." ~~ Talmud, Avoda Zara
"Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text." ~~ Moshe Mendelssohn
"The shoe according to the foot and the style according to the contents." ~~ Reuven Breinin
"I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead. " ~~ Samuel Goldwyn
"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers." ~~ Steven Spielberg
"Sometimes one must translate not the lines themselves but what is written between them. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik