“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
Vladimir Nabokov libro Lectures on Literature
Fuente: Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov: Frases en inglés
Vladimir Nabokov era novelista, profesor. Frases en inglés.Vladimir Nabokov: 246 citas35 Me gusta
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.”
Vladimir Nabokov libro Strong Opinions
"Foreword", p. 3.
Strong Opinions (1973)
“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
Vladimir Nabokov libro Lolita
Variante: Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
Fuente: Lolita
Fuente: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov libro The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Fuente: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov libro Speak, Memory
Fuente: Speak, Memory
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Vladimir Nabokov libro Pale Fire
Fuente: Pale Fire (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov libro Strong Opinions
Fuente: Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
Contexto: To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov libro Bend Sinister
Fuente: Bend Sinister
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
Interview with Herbert Gold, The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 4th series (1977), p. 107 ISBN 0-140-04543-0