Vladimir Nabokov on Books
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #171969: "Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."
Attributed to Vladimir Nabokov, entry #114936: "Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ."
4 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov on Books
"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."
"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ."
"After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct."
"The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side . This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" in a novel may be led to look for them in this one."