#censors

All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want. ↗

— Mark Coker

#indie-writing #freedom

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. ↗

— William Golding

#crucifixion #religion #religion

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#censorship #censorship

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself. ↗

— Granville Hicks

#censorship

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability. ↗

— David Mamet

#genius #mamet #censorship

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ↗

— Tommy Smothers

#ideas #listen #only #people #right

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#censorship #censorship

Poems are difficult to silence. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#poems #poetry #silence #suppression #censorship

In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains - editing, and it's going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things... 'What's its future?' you ask? I don't know. Possibly, you will store the manuscript in one of the drawers, next to my 'killed' plays, and occasionally it will be in your thoughts. Then again, you don't know the future. My own judgement of the book is already made and I think it truly deserves being hidden away in the darkness of some chest. [Bulgakov from Moscow to his wife on June 15 1938] ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#letter #master-and-margarita #russia #samizdat #writing