Defend Quote by Misha Green

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

— Salman Rushdie

“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)”

— Salman Rushdie

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

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk…

— Jay Asher

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

“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

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

Why censor yourself? You got to tell the truth as you see it.

— Eddie Griffin

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.

— Mark Kassen

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas