Nabokov Quotes

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does ...

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon wh...

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintanc...

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything th...

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bl...

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

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

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm ...

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

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, inn...