Books Quote by Otis Y. Chandler

Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists,…

— Marshall Herskovitz

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

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like,…

— Robert Zemeckis

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

— Michael Berryman

“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it. Critics are…

— Katie Waitman

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

— W. H. Auden

If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of…

— Joe Lieberman

So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many…

— John Grisham

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

— Bennett Cerf

“By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review, by removing discussion of social context, and saying that only…

— G.R. Reader

“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

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk…

— Matt Haig