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. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
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. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
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. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
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. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
