“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of… — Sarah Weinman 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
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov” — Leslie Langtry 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
“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
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
One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more… — Keira Michelle Telford Copy Share Image
'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling. — Domhnall Gleeson 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
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
I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery… — Chris Ware 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
“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was… — Susan M. Tiberghien Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer 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
“It was Coleridge, a compulsive book scribbler, who first called it marginalia. Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come… — Pradeep Sebastian 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
