Book Quote by Steve Toltz

I think the thing I had to be careful about while writing a book was not to say anything that was revealing about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only…

— Robertson Davies

“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

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person…

— Lois Lowry

I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people…

— Sheila Heti

That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of…

— Murong Xuecun

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly…

— Eudora Welty

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville