Favorite thing Quote by Josh Hanagarne

“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe the library…

— Josh Hanagarne

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

“A good library contains something in it to offend everyone.”

— Jo Goodwin

“Those of us who oppose censorship believe that reading about something is a safe way to explore and understand it, and that it is…

— Joan Bertin

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 library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.”

— Anonymous

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

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

— Matthew Lesko

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

— Michael Berryman

“By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review, by removing discussion of social context, and saying that only…

— G.R. Reader