The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense-which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3). (Vladimir Nabokov)

The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense-which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).

Vladimir Nabokov

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