More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes"
"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"
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
"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."