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
Caress the detail, the divine detail. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 1
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
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