The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with t... - Vladimir Nabokov

"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."

"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"

"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."

"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."