The quotation is "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." I think the source is a published lecture, "The Art of Literature and Commonsense". I may be wrong, but I tend to read the quotation in the context of "gaps" and reader response theory. I don't have a copy of the lecture yet, but I assume that Nabokov is talking about the writer. Nevertheless, the words do imply a *reading* process, albeit a process of reading that is integral with that of writing. Very interested to hear Katherina's opinion about this possibility.
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