Writing Quote by Leslie Langtry Download Open image ““You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”” — Leslie Langtry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vladimir Nabokov Writing
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 Copy Share Image
“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him or herself.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus… — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Ita feri ut se mori sentiat." ("Strike him so that he can feel he is dying.") —Suetonius” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Rule #1: If you can make it look like someone else did it, go for it.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“A teenage boy with a Mohawk sat across from me, sneering. I’d seen that look before. Why was it a problem to knit in… — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero." —Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Assassin fun fact #1: Did you know you could kill someone with a simple overdose of table salt?” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." —P. J. O'Rourke” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Things are pretty black and white when your options are either live or die.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“Dekker kicked out, connecting with my left shin, and I dropped him for a second. That was all the time he needed to grab… — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
“There's something about dealing in death that brings out the maternal in me.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
