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"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."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
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