Because Quote by William Gibson

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

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

— Amitava Kumar

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor…

— Vijayashanti

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

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of…

— Don Borchert

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

— Michael Berryman

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

— Timothy Leary

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is…

— Orhan Pamuk

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

— Terry Pratchett

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