Famous Book Banning Quotes & Sayings

If it takes a war to get my mate back, then bring it on. I am coming for her. And when I do, you and anyone else in my way will die. — Eve Langlais

It may make me a bastard and a total pervert, but even if she is seventeen, underage and way, way too young, I am afraid I won't be able to let her go. — Aria Cole

Today and tomorrow you will be in your prime; but soon you will die,
in battle or in bed; either fire or water,
the fearsome elements, will embrace you,
or you will succumb to the sword's flashing edge,
or the arrow's flight, or terrible old age;
then your eyes, once bright, will be clouded over;
all too soon, O warrior, death will destroy you.
Hrothgar to Beowulf — Anonymous

I see myself as a recovering journalist. — Annalena McAfee

The sat in silence for a few more minutes, — Elizabeth Hunter

Harry had loved most of the arts long enough to know that artists had to be excused failings which would condemn the general population. The artist was the proxy, the brave one, the one who spoke, was thanked, and who paid the price. Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance, at the door while they worked. — Hanif Kureishi

A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words. — Richard Sibbes

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done. — James Sanborn

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn. — James A. Belasco

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it. — Claire Bloom

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves. — Nathan Filer

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half-love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.
It is possible that in order to keep love, feeling, tenderness alive, it will be necessary to feel these emotions ambiguously, even for what is false and debased, or for what is still an idea, a shadow in the willed imagination only ... or if what we feel is pain, then we must feel it, acknowledging that the alternative is death. Better anything than the shrewd, the calculated, the non-committal, the refusal of giving for fear of the consequences ... — Doris Lessing

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway