--- title: "1 Author Says Quotes By Nabokov Vladimir" description: "1 Author Says quotes by Nabokov Vladimir. Plus more from Nabokov Vladimir and more Author Says sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/nabokov-vladimir-51911_art_the-real-writer-the-fellow-who-sends-pla_2669976.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/the-real-writer-the-fellow-who-sends-planets-spinning-and-models-a/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/nabokov-vladimir-51911_art_the-real-writer-the-fellow-who-sends-pla_2669976.jpg) ## More by Nabokov Vladimir > [“He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/he-who-lives-in-a-glass-house-should-not-try-to-kill-two-birds-with/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) > [“Life, Love, libraries, have no future”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/life-love-libraries-have-no-future/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/why-our-poet-chose-to-give-his-1958-hurricane-a-little-used-spanish/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) > [“Space-time" - that hideous hybrid whose very hyphen looks phoney.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/space-time-that-hideous-hybrid-whose-very-hyphen-looks-phoney/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) > [“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/he-approaches-a-cockroach-in-only-one-respect-his-coloration-is-brown/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nabokov-vladimir/the-real-writer-the-fellow-who-sends-planets-spinning-and-models-a/) [Nabokov Vladimir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nabokov-vladimir/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/author-says/nabokov-vladimir/#itemlist", "name": "1 Author Says Quotes By Nabokov Vladimir", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 writing is a very futile business if it does not imply first of all the art of seeing the world as the potentiality of fiction. The material of this world may be real enough (as far as reality goes) but it does not exist at all as an accepted entirety: it is chaos, and to this chaos the author says \"go!\" allowing the world to flicker and to fuse. It is now recombined in its very atoms, not merely in its visible and superficial parts. The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake. That mist is a mountain--and that mountain must be conquered. Up a trackless slope climbs the master artist, and at the top, on a windy ridge, whom do you think he meets? 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