Book Quote by Murong Xuecun

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 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

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

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

— Michael Berryman

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

— Felice Picano

“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

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Bennett Cerf

The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no…

— Salman Rushdie

“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

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky