You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.
Every burned book enlightens the world.