Book Quote by Chris Crutcher

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But…

— Richard Grenell

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers…

— Felice Picano

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only…

— Robertson Davies

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that…

— Judy Blume

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was…

— Dee Rees

Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story…

— Ellen Hopkins