Banned books Quote by Ellen Hopkins

“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat…

— Peter Ackroyd

“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment. So dear…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame…

— M. Kirin

“Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...”

— Chaim Potok

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book,…

— Suzanne Selfors

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

— Ray Bradbury

“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to…

— Philippa Gregory

“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can do is…

— Lady Jaida

“When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.”

— K.J. Parker

“books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

— Joel C. Rosenberg

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit