An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
I don't believe in censorship in any form.
Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.