More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."