Censorship Quote by Joan Bertin

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

— Tisca Chopra

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read…

— Stephen King

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as…

— 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

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

— Felice Picano

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“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

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

— Paul Morrissey

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

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