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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov quotes

American Novelist, Writer April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977

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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I confess, I do not believe in time."
I confess, I do not believe in time. Vladimir Nabokov
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. Vladimir Nabokov
Being a murderer with a sensational but incomplete and unorthodox memory, I cannot tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the exact day which I first knew with certainty that the red convertible was following us. Vladimir Nabokov
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov
We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing... What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint..."
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant..."
The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are..."
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Vladimir Nabokov
Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science. Vladimir Nabokov
...really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I have rewritten? often several times? every word I have ever..."
I have rewritten? often several times? every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these..."
If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look. Vladimir Nabokov
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. Vladimir Nabokov

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