Dystopian Author Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Vladimir Nabokov A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become […]

Vladimir Nabokov I have rewritten – often several times – every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at […]

Vladimir Nabokov Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without […]

Vladimir Nabokov The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make […]

Vladimir Nabokov Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.