Book Quote by Michael Berryman

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 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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

— George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered…

— Anonymous

“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

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

— Xzibit