Banned books Quote by Margaret Bald

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

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

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

— Michael Berryman

“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

“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

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

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have…

— Simin Behbahani

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“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

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds.…

— Lois Lowry

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari