When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
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