Vladimir Nabokov was a famous Novelist from USA, who lived between April 22, 1899 and July 2, 1977. He/she became 78 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 39 quotes who is written / told by Vladimir.
39 Famous quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece"
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child"
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it"
"Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity"
"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has"
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music"
"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man"
"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one"
"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow"
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is"
"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"
"I confess, I do not believe in time"
"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst"
"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"
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow"
"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"
"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"
"Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm"
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness"
"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion"
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail"
"It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot"
"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"
"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading"
"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know"
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained"
"Caress the detail, the divine detail"
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter"
"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist"
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual"
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past"
"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader"
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"
"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"
"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"
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent"
"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game"
"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution"
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words"
