Book Quote by Bennett Cerf

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

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

— Michael Berryman

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk…

— Matt Haig

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

— Felice Picano

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds.…

— Lois Lowry

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

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

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

“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

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person…

— Lois Lowry