Book Quote by Israel Zangwill

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will…

— Judy Blume

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

— Michael Berryman

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak…

— Stefan Heym

Hitler also used censorship , think about it

— Book

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

“[T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.”

— Kevin Hearne

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted in Literary…

— George Bernard Shaw

“[T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“[I]t is really the ponderous books which I envy. How easy merely to put down everything you think or imagine. No holding back, no…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever…

— Salman Rushdie

“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

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