Dystopian Author Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Vladimir Nabokov Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians […]

Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Vladimir Nabokov A major writer combines these three – storyteller, teacher, enchanter – but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a […]

Vladimir Nabokov You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Vladimir Nabokov The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Vladimir Nabokov And yet I adore him. I think he’s quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically […]

Vladimir Nabokov Words without experience are meaningless.

Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.