Lolita Quote by Keira Michelle Telford

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

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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Leslie Langtry

Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for…

— Jeff Vandermeer

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

— Domhnall Gleeson

'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

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

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

— Dean Koontz

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