Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Literature is the memory of humanity.
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.