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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me styl... (more Vladimir Nabokov quotes)
Nabokov didn't think much of the works of many of his contemporaries such as William Faulkner, Berthold Brecht, Albert Camus, and Ezra Pound.
Nabokov refused to use a telephone.
Works were known for their complex plots, clever word play, and use of alliteration.
Wrote everything in longhand because he didn't know how to type.
Nabokov was educated at the Tenishev school in St. Petersburg.... (more Vladimir Nabokov trivia)
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