Before Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators, some stories…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

— Charles de Lint

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

— Judy Blume

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a…

— Charles de Lint

“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

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned…

— Margaret Bald

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

— Glenn Danzig

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little…

— Judy Blume