Quotes Vladimir Nabokov

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is...

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the s...

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is o...

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagina...

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blu...

Caress the detail, the divine detail....

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospec...

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockh...

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfin...

Genius is an African who dreams up snow....

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love...

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

I confess, I do not believe in time....

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the charac...

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memo...

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

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

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the imm...

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

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, mo...

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anyt...

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

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not b...

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions kno...

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruel...