Book Ban Quotes

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla.

The printing of books is forbidden.

I want the fascist Qur'an banned.

Put an end to the sale of books of the kind in question—those with titles, jacket designs, or illustrations suggestion of indecent content.

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Muslims to execute them wherever they find them.