Books Quote by William O. Douglas

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the…

— William O. Douglas

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

— Don Marquis

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a…

— Ali Smith

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

— Elif Batuman

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

— G. D. H. Cole

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

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or…

— Rebecca West

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

— Paul Morrissey

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty…

— Gao Xingjian

“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

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell