Vladimir Nabokov Quote

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.


Lectures on Russian literature (ed. Harcourt, 1981)


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.

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.

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.

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.