Quotes about Vladimir Nabokov

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

#Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an...

#Vladimir Nabokov

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an...

#Vladimir Nabokov

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but...

#Vladimir Nabokov

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order...

#Vladimir Nabokov

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons...

#Vladimir Nabokov

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like...

#Vladimir Nabokov

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels...

#Vladimir Nabokov

I confess, I do not believe in time.

#Vladimir Nabokov