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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 have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
"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
"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
"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
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
"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
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
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"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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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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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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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 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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