Nabokov Writing Quotes
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible
— Vladimir Nabokov
How can I demonstrate [ ... ] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
— Vladimir Nabokov
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Every great writer is a great deceiver
— Vladimir Nabokov
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
— Vladimir Nabokov