Book Quote by Lois Lowry

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

I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to…

— Sherman Alexie

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

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

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her…

— Sherman Alexie

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

When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author,…

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— Michael Berryman

Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response…

— Robert Cormier

“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

“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

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