Believe Quote by Steve Erickson

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

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

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by…

— Hannah Kent

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

— John Updike

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Leslie Langtry

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be…

— Rebecca Allard

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

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

— Anais Nin

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