One of the major themes of Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451 was the progress of subtle language expurgation and abridgment leading to full censorship. In the late 1970s, Bradbury was informed by a group of students that the book itself was being edited for language. In a corrected edition, he added a Coda with some great comments about how such abridgments remove the character and style of an author so one author reads like any other.
He goes on to suggest that any group that does not care for his style or language is welcome to write their own books. Sadly, I do not remember the specific lines (and all my books are in moving boxes at the moment), but WikiQuote did provide this:
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If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. -Ray Bradbury, Coda to Fahrenheit 451
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