Vladimir Nabokov

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Recommended: The role of imagination in prose fiction

According to professor Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most important qualities of a good reader is having an imagination (Nabokov 3). This is a quality is not only useful for readers, but also for those who are involved with publications, such as my involvement with yearbook. The yearbook programs is such that you are assigned a specific topic, whether it be sports or activities, and based off the research and information gathered, the writer compiles three different components to tell the story of that specific assignment. Through this structure the writer has to be creative and imagine what their topic should be, and how to structure the story based on this. Although this was my role of the staff last year, this year I am a design editor, a

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