KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Vladimir Nabokov Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Showing 41-43 of 43 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

~Vladimir Nabokov

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1977

Links

Find Vladimir Nabokov on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
H. P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palahniuk
Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel

Popular Authors

Robert Baden-Powell Tyler, The Creator Alexander The Great Kevin Hart Alfred Hitchcock Tony Robbins Bruce Springsteen Lil Wayne

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - James Joyce

1905 - Ayn Rand

1745 - Hannah More

1754 - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

1843 - Knute Nelson

1859 - Havelock Ellis

1864 - Margot Asquith

1874 - Ernest Shackleton

1875 - Fritz Kreisler

1882 - James Stephens

Birthdays on February 2nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Faith Gardening Jealousy Movies Moving On Smile Sports Trust