Vladimir Nabokov Quotes


46 quotes:

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words"
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"For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: Fiction Quotes
"Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . ."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: Creation Quotes
"The tiny madman in his padded cell."
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"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."
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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"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."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
Author: Nabokov Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes

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