“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“ 'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.' ” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
“What would he have to say about the Nabokov Museum in the same city, which during the Stalin era had served as… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher.… — Corey Robin Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely… — azar nafisi Copy Share Image
“Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“I told them what I had discovered about Nabokov's sentences: Because the word string and the thoughts behind the words are so… — Daniels, Leslie Copy Share Image
“In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazard from the shelf, but with Nabokov's first sentence I knew it wasn't… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“It is indeed a tricky name. It is often misspelt, because the eye tends to regard the "a" of the first syllable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“In a nervous and slender-leaved mimosa grove at the back of their villa we found a perch on the ruins of a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
“to play a solitary game of chequers, to read, to write – what should I do?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
![“Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of…” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/joyce-carol-oates-344_ada_of-course-both-oscar-wilde-vladimir-nabo_1242421.jpg)
