The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with t... - Vladimir Nabokov
"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."
More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
"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."
"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."