Censorship Quote by G.R. Reader

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the…

— Gunter Grass

“Bad Goodreads reviews are cyberbullying: attacking someone with an undeserved 1 star review and cruel insults. Goodreads bullies trash the author's hard work, just…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Many people have been protesting against what they describe as censorship on Goodreads. I disagree. In fact, I would like to say that I…

— Manny Rayner

“I don't understand exactly what's going on, but Goodreads shouldn't be deleting reviews, period. People are smart enough to look at them on their…

— Brett J. Talley

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of…

— Julius Lester

“If people wrote their reviews on paper and put them into a real, physical library, I am sure that the Goodreads administrators would be…

— G.R. Reader

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

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

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

“Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in…

— Jane Austen

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic.…

— Patricia Hampl