Why do people regard some books as important and make them into a guidebook for their lives? Although to develop in ones self the art of forming sudden harmonious patterns out of widely separate threads is never to be despised, and although, as in Marcel Prousts case, the actual idea of a novel may spring from such actual sensations as the melting of a biscuit on the tongue or the roughness of a pavement underfoot, it would be rash to conclude that the creation of all novels ought to be based on a kind of glorified physical experience. . He is lonely because people are jealous of him and the beautiful music that he makes. Good Readers and Good Writers :: Vladimir Nabokov - The Floating Library (It's okay life changes course. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world. Alas, I have known people whose purpose in reading the French and Russian novelists was to learn something about life in gay Paree or in sad Russia. There comes a moment when I am informed from within that the entire structure is finished. . Nabokovs intention of this piece is to passionately display a relationship that is formed between a good reader and a good writer, and the essential need for an open mind. Nature always deceives. If you have, too, heres a collection of some of his best writing advice to help you get a little closer (though honestly, he would hatethis), plucked from lectures and interviews. Lovecraft advised aspiring writers. The reader should have imagination. Vladimir Nabokov employs several types of rhetorical devices in his lecture, "Good Readers and Good Writers". This helps the readers become a better writer by just reading over what we read with the mindset of a writer, rather than reading to gain a common understanding of context or with the goal of completing a piece for the fulfillment of a grade., After reading the article, Reading Like a Writer, it made me aware of my reading behaviors. 6. When he perished at last, the story told about him acquired a good lesson in the dark around a camp fire. For example, he uses a few metaphors throughout this piece. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. He really understands what it means to be a good reader or a good writer. Time and space, the colors of the seasons, the movements of muscles and minds, all these are for writers of genius (as far as we can guess and I trust we guess right, not traditional notions which may be borrowed from the circulating library of public truths but a series of unique surprises which master artists have learned to express in their own unique way. The reader should have some artistic sense. Good Readers and Good Writers. His creative sense and choice of words, "Every great writer, is a great deceiver" has such meaning and a new outlook, that it would make the reader stop in his tracks. According to Nabakov a good reader is someone who uses imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense." A good reader and a good writer is someone that uses art and vision to create the writing. From the simple deception of propagation to the prodigiously sophisticated illusion of protective colors in butterflies or birds, there is in Nature a marvelous system of spells and wiles. He specifically articulates that one should read to comprehend minute details before summarizing the big . Vladimir Nabokov was a multilingual twentieth century Russian novelist.