"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
—Ray Bradbury
I totally have to agree with this quote. It has a powerful meaning. I interpret it as Anyone can burn a book but that is not going to keep people from reading it. It's going to make people want to read it to see what is so bad about it. Another thing I will point out is that if you do something bad and get scolded your most likely going to think twice before you do it again. So Authors have to be careful about what they write and I don't think they should have to be. In our amendments we have the right to speak our minds and voice our opinions. I personally think people just need to deal with it. People don't just go walking around burning people if they don't agree with them so why burn books. It's not like you have to read them.
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