Book Quote by Felice Picano

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

“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

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

— Alberto Manguel

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

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 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

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

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 are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the…

— Felice Picano