Book Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

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

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

“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

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

— Michael Berryman

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

“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

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

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

— Alberto Manguel

“Book banning satisfied their need to feel in control of their children's lives. Those who censored were easily frightened. They were afraid of exposing…

— Judy Blume

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

— Bennett Cerf

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas