Ability Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)”

— Salman Rushdie

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that…

— Misha Green

“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

“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

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

— Charles Bukowski

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

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

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

— Julian Assange

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

— James Harvey Robinson