Vladimir Nabokov Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 2
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
source: Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)
topic: Running, Writing, Boys, Neanderthals, Crying Wolf
