"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
"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
"No artistan without tools, nor any scholar without books." ~~ Tsohar Hateiva
"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
"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
"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