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she had deliberately ignored a simple truth: tragedy casts a long shadow.
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.”
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us a glimmer of the complexity and wonder of life. All this, the censor would deny us.”
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
“Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't. There are occasionally words my characters choose that I wouldn't utter in my mother's presence. But when I was sixteen, or twelve, hanging out with my friends? That was different. For a story to feel real, I have to respect what a character would really do or say.”
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices--all because of fear. How many have resorted to self-censorship? How many are saying to themselves, "Nope ... can't write about that. Can't teach that book. Can't have that book in our collection. Can't let my student write that editorial in the school paper.”
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
― Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
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