Quotes by Nabokov, Vladimir

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. >>

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash >>

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. >>

Quotations about Fiction

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence >>

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is par >>

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecut >>

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Nabokov, Vladimir