“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.”— Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”— E. Lockhart “Oh let me live my own! and die so too! (“To live and die is all I have to do:”) Maintain a poet’s dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.”— Alexander Pope “Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”— Laurie Halse Anderson