Judy Blume Quotes

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

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

Censorship has had a long history in the western world. Book banning is as old as books.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop it being brought in from outside.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.

Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.