Nabokov Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
— Dean Koontz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: