Quotes Tagged With :nabokov

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another....

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you....

I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and....

The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first....

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those....

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.....

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child....

One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow,....