My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
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. Vladimir Nabokov Read Quote
