Common Quote by Martin Amis

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A…

— Martin Amis

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

Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

“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

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

— Steve Erickson

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

— Leslie Langtry

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

— Lorrie Moore

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

“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third…

— Corey Robin

“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

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