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Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. -- Lauren Myracle
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. -- Salman Rushdie
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. -- Judy Blume
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. -- Kathryn Stockett
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald
For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. -- Lev Grossman
Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years. -- Elaine Pagels
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain. -- Mildred D. Taylor
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. -- Ma Jian
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. -- Ken Bruen
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." -- Kathryn Stockett

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