Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

We should not try to mediate constructions' reality and realities' construction. - Vladimir Nabokov

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. - Vladimir Nabokov

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating 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. - Vladimir Nabokov

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. - 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 bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

The tiny madman in his padded cell. - Vladimir Nabokov

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. - Vladimir Nabokov

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