Quotes About Author Banned Books

#1. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

John Milton

#2. The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. As a spider web of tingles skitters over my skin. I can't believe it. I've never felt this. Not even with Penny. I'm actually nervous to be with a woman.

K.A. Tucker

#4. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

Shandy L. Kurth

#5. I strongly believe that you have to get lost to find yourself.

Kaiylah Muhammad

#6. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. And in any ONE of them you can decide to CHANGE your life. Tick tock tick tock.

Sven Paardekooper

#7. Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

Lauren Myracle

#8. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

#9. We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. 'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Myracle

#12. O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

Francis Asbury

#13. The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

John Green

#14. If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

Pat McIntosh