"Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week." ~~ Bette Midler
"A book without a preface is like a body without a soul." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"Television has raised writing to a new low." ~~ Samuel Goldwyn
"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning." ~~ Steven Spielberg
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. " ~~ Henry Youngman
"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. " ~~ Elie Wiesel
"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. " ~~ Groucho Marx
"The more books, the more wisdom. " ~~ Omer Hashikhcha
"Our Holy Scriptures are not only a religious book, but the foundation of our literature, our language and our history, and the sole source of them." ~~ Rav Tza’ir
"A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"Where can you find a better place to spend the dangerous age than in literature?" ~~ Theodore Herzl
"It is easiser, perhaps, to do good deeds than tell good stories." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon