Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

My answer to your question ‘Does the writer have a social responsibility?’ is NO. You owe me ten cents, sir.

Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Those Eggheads are terrible Philistines. A real good head is not oval but round.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

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.