Nabokov

Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:

“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltz—before the play starts—imagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“I looked up from the letter and was about to—There was no Lo to behold.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)