Quotes by 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

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received...

#Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

#Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something...

#Vladimir Nabokov

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be...

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Caress the detail, the divine detail.

#Vladimir Nabokov

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain...

#Vladimir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

#Vladimir Nabokov