“After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct.”

—  Vladimir Nabokov

As quoted in &quot;Nabokov&#x27;s Love Affairs&quot; by R. W. Flint http://www.powells.com/review/2003_07_17.html in The New Republic (17 June 1957). <br class="br">On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956)

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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