Books Quote by Nadine Gordimer

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 have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

— Penn Jillette

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

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

— William O. Douglas

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

— Paul Morrissey

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

“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