Book Suppression Quotes

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

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

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

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

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.