Law school Quote by Daniels, Leslie

Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys. Like tearstains…

— Azar Nafisi

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality.…

— Azar Nafisi

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

“I was no better at reading people than I had been ten seconds ago, but in that moment, I suddenly gained a flash of…

— Richelle Mead

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never…

— Zadie Smith

“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample…

— Stacy Schiff

“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after…

— Lorrie Moore

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates…

— Rabih Alameddine

“I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.”

— Sylvia Plath

“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my…

— Azar Nafisi