"Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it." --Judy Blume
"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."
--Stephen Chbosky
"Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st Century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature. You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant." --Neil Gaiman
"Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous -- they contain ideas." --Pete Hautman
"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases." --Kurt Vonnegut
"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."
--Laurie Halse Anderson