A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 4
I confess, I do not believe in time. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 3
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 1
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. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
There is only one school of literature - that of talent. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Solitude is the play field of Satan. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . . Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Other men die; but I Am not another; therefore I'll not die. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
[Against whom was it turned? Against whom did he conspire?] Tum-tee-tum. And once more - TUM! ... I have not gone mad. I am merely producing gleeful little sounds. The kind of glee one experiences upon making an April Fool of someone. And a damned good fool I have made of someone. Who is he? Gentle reader, look at yourself in the mirror. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
There is only one school of literature -- that of talent. Vladimir Nabokov Russian Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0