The
Privilege of Having Written a Banned Book
Some may
consider it a dubious honor, but I consider it a great privilege that my first
novel, Spite Fences, has been banned
in many schools. In fact, on a list compiled by the National Council of
Teachers of English, it is sandwiched between Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (my very favorite among
her books) and Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird (my all-time favorite book ever written in the whole wide
world). The list also contains writers like Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury, and the
unsurpassed Bill (William Shakespeare, of course.) In moments of immodesty, I like to think that perhaps Spite Fences has been banned because it gives readers much to think about.
Since I was
recently asked to give a presentation on my personal experience with
book-banning in honor of Banned Books Week, I’ve been giving some thought to
the topic of censorship. Below are some interesting quotations about banned
books.
My favorite
is the first one: “If you control the books, you control the conversation.”
What’s yours?
o
Trudy
Krisher www.trudykrisherauthor.com
Quotations:
Banned Books
1 1. “If you control the books, you control the
conversation.” – National Coalition
Against Censorship
2 2. “There are worse crimes than
burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
3. “Where they have
burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine
― Heinrich Heine
5. “Only the nonreader fears books.” -Richard
Peck
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