Media Quote by Vijayashanti

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

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

— Elif Batuman

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

— Paul Morrissey

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

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment…

— Witold Walczak

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

— Hugh Hefner

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else;…

— Edgar Dale

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

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run,…

— Katharine Whitehorn

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

— Richard King