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)

“Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)