The Jewish Wisdom Database

If he is a fighter, he is no writer; if a writer, no fighter.

Who is the person that bares his nakedness here and it is beheld everywhere? The man that writes something and errs in writing it.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

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.

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Life is God's novel so let him write it.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

The critic proclaims: 'You should learn to write', and the author answers: 'You should learn to read.'

No man is wise without books.

The more books, the more wisdom.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book.

Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened.

If you are a man of the sword, you can't claim to be a man of the book; and if you are a man of the book, you will not be a man of the sword.

Reading poetry in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.