“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it’s actually lucrative for me. We call… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour… — Sjón Copy Share Image
“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“After Giles Palot was burned to death, Sylvie’s mother went into a depression. For Sylvie this was the most shocking of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Isn't he beautiful?" Hadley says longingly. Yes , I think, but not in the way she obviously sees him. He's beautiful in… — Trisha Wolfe Copy Share Image
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
