Censors Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Censors Criticism Ill Ill Writers Inspirational Love Sharpest Censors Usually Sharpest Writer Writers Usually Writing
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics may be… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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