“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that kind of author has no given values at his disposal: he must create them himself. The art of… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
“He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.” — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share
“Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.” — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share
“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share
“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that kind of… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share
