Famous Quotes | Among the many gifts I showered...
Among the many gifts I showered on Martin, I was careful not to include talent. How easy it would have been to make him an artist, a writer; how hard not to let him be one, while bestowing on him the keen sensitivity that one generally associates with the creative creature; how cruel to prevent him from finding in art—not an “escape” (which is only a cleaner cell on a quieter floor), but relief from the itch of being.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Attribution: Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Glory, foreword (1970).
Categories: Art, Character, Life
