Arabian Quote by Salman Rushdie

“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

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

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

— Karl Kraus

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“You, dear reader, I am sure cannot imagine what it might be like to live in a world in which books are banned. For…

— Cressida Cowell

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Gradual change is in principle, of course, a good idea, certainly in countries where a blatant disregard for civil liberties go hand in hand…

— John R. Bradley

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

“Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad…

— Sherman Alexie