Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

American - Novelist | April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Vladimir Nabokov

NothingMoreThanExhilarating

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

WorkLoveHappyYoungCleanWithin

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

StyleMeMatterBlushFirstSeems

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

WorldMasterpieceFictionOriginal

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

LoveMemoryThinkStrongerYouMore

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

StyleYouAlwaysFancyCountProse

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov

TimeBelieveConfess

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

DreamsSnowImaginationGeniusUp

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

ChildSpeakThinkGeniusWriteLike

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

ImaginationPrecisionPoetWriter

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

SchoolTalentLiteratureOnly

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

MindMoreToneGiftedChancesTint

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