Banned Books Quotes

Banned Books Quote of the day

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?