Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called "real life" of the so- called average m...
To a joke, then, I owe my first gleam of consciousness—which again has recapitulatory implications, since the first creatures on earth to be...
That Dali is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.
Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Let us wait for the page proof.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
