More Quotes by 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.
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.
I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
