Nabokov Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the… — Edward Abbey
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters… — Jenny Offill
If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or… — Lorrie Moore
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something… — Donald E. Westlake
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any… — Jeff VanderMeer
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy,… — Jeff VanderMeer
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time… — Zadie Smith
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,… — Ashwin Sanghi
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention… — Mohsin Hamid
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote… — Zadie Smith
He starts to shake and cough, just like the old man in the book by Nabokov. — The Police

Who Wrote These Nabokov Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Nabokov Quotes as follows: