Best Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
- The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. Evolution
- I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Anybody
- A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. Fiction
- All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. All
- Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Blockheads
- The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. Author
- 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… Ago
- A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. All
- I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. Effort
- No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Author
- The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed… Admirable
- There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Airplane
- You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Always Count
- I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away… Abruptly
- It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the… Administrative
- 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… Actual
- Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. Creativity
- Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from… Another One
- Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. Art
- Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really… Absolute
- Dear Jesus, do something. Dear
- I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. Drunk
- …She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never… Any
- ...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… Argument
- The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save… Curiosity
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