Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. — Vladimir Nabokov
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Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

— Vladimir Nabokov
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