Vladmir NABOKOV :: unusual work habits... index cards. - http://www.quora.com/What-ar...
Jul 22, 2012
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"Vladimir Nabokov wrote most of his drafts on index cards so that he could shuffle them about and carry them along with him on his butterfly expeditions [http://ff.im/QPF8V]. He kept blank cards under his pillow for whenever inspiration struck."
- Adriano
re: _The Original of Laura_ : before Nabokov's death in 1977, he instructed his wife to burn the unfinished first draft—handwritten on 138 index cards—of what would be his final novel. She did not, and Nabokov's son, Dmitri, released them to the world. This very unfinished work reads largely like an outline, full of seeming notes-to-self and brief flashes of spectacular prose: http://i.imgur.com/ucUQu.jpg <- Knopf ed. w/ index cards!
- Adriano
original of laura, he mi. o neymiş lan.
- Alfonker Tapir