“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.”
Vladimir Nabokov book Strong Opinions
"Foreword", p. 3.
Strong Opinions (1973)
“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 356
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