Censorship Quote by Samuel Johnson

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my…

— John Steinbeck

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

— Peter Sotos

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

— Mark Twain

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as…

— H. L. Mencken

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

— Calvin Trillin

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene…

— Don Roff