I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. Vladimir Nabokov conceivemindpsychoanalyst Change image and share on social
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 fullyhomemortal Change image and share on social
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 actualbulletclean share on social
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Vladimir Nabokov blockheadclasscocky Change image and share on social
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. Vladimir Nabokov effortgenerallyhack Change image and share on social
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov airplaneaphorismmotion Change image and share on social
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov gamelessonparody Change image and share on social
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. Vladimir Nabokov authorcharacterchekhov Change image and share on social
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 abruptlyartificialbestow Change image and share on social
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Vladimir Nabokov countfancymurderer Change image and share on social
