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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."
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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."
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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books


"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship


"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life


"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People


"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
People


"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind


"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time


"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time


"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
Reading


"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
Family
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