Nabokov

Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:

    A slight digression: that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie. In reality, she was a woman of the people, simple and coarse, sordidly dressed in a kind of blouse hanging loose at the waist. I could, of course, have crossed it out, but I purposely leave it there as a sample of one of my essential traits: my light-hearted, inspired lying.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Let us wait for the page proof.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)