Bedtime Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages…

— J. M. Coetzee

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

“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

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

“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

Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of…

— Murong Xuecun

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

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar