The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored in long file boxes. Since Nabokov claimed...
John Cheever thought that you couldn’t even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self—isn’t that the truth?)
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