"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
"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 people knew the troubles that authors experience, they would not laugh on finding some little error in their books." ~~ Yehuda Ben Janach
"If he is a fighter, he is no writer; if a writer, no fighter." ~~ Talmud, Avoda Zara