Reading Rights Quotes

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

Books belong to their readers.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.