Forgetfulness Quote by Stacy Schiff

“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

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

— Leslie Langtry

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

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

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

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

— Martin Amis

“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem.…

— Yoko Ogawa

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“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

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and…

— Leo Tolstoy