Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Yes. They're bringing in books from all over the world and burning them here.” — Sōsuke Natsukawa Copy Share Image
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind… — Stephen Chbosky 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
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“These people decry government overreach as they try to use the government to dictate what citizens can and cannot read.” — Amanda Jones 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
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“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
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman 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
'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'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of… — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume 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
“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
![“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.” quote by Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/lev-grossman-747_able_young-minds-young-brains-need-stories-an_716251.jpg)
