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)

“Because of the unusual remoteness of Russia, and because of nostalgia’s remaining throughout one’s life an insane companion, with whose heartrending oddities one is accustomed to put up in public, I feel no embarrassment in confessing to the sentimental stab of attachment to my first book.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The locomotive, working rapidly with its elbows, hurried through a pine forest, then—with relief—among fields.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)