Everybody Quote by Nick Cave

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

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

— Paddy Chayefsky

“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

“They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see”

— Blas De Otero

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

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide…

— Salman Rushdie

“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers'…

— Judy Blume

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too…

— Jonathan Ames

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer