Quotes about Vladimir Nabokov

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches...

#Vladimir Nabokov

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of...

#Vladimir Nabokov

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

#Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal...

#Vladimir Nabokov

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

#Vladimir Nabokov

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...

#Vladimir Nabokov

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling...

#Vladimir Nabokov

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in...

#Vladimir Nabokov

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

#Vladimir Nabokov

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...

#Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

#Vladimir Nabokov