Censorship Quote by Alice Mattison

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of…

— Julius Lester

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,…

— Salman Rushdie

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages…

— J. M. Coetzee

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say,…

— Nick Cave

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor…

— Vijayashanti

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

— Richard King

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a…

— Katherine Paterson

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

— Studs Terkel

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

— Salman Rushdie

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

— Xzibit