Top 1200 Censorship In Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

I don't believe in political self-censorship.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

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

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at proper books, which means books without pictures.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

There should be no censorship of mail.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of your crazy life. Real books tell it true, don't hold back and make you stronger. But most of all, real books give you hope. Because it's not always going to be like this and books-the good ones, the ones-show you how to make it better. Now.

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven’t yet found the right books for them.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like imaginary friends - I immersed myself in the different worlds. I always hated finishing books that I really loved for that reason.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

We can't let censorship take over.

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles - both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their rightful office-- books in which justification, and sanctification, and regeneration, and faith, and grace, and holiness are clearly, distinctly, and accurately delineated and exhibited, these are the only books which do real good. Few things need reviving more than a taste for such books as these among readers.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.