20th century Quote by Dean Koontz

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp.…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way to rise…

— Julian Barnes

“Nabokov once said that the price of being a writer was sleepless nights. But, Nabokov added slyly, if the writer doesn’t have sleepless nights,…

— Charles Baxter

After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of 1971. Chief…

— Sarah Weinman

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

— Domhnall Gleeson

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything…

— Keira Michelle Telford

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read…

— Elizabeth Strout

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

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in…

— Samantha Hunt

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

“Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.”

— Stacy Schiff