Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Writing, Ideas

• You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Style, Fancy, Murder

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 1 (1955)

• All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Style, Stories, Matter

  "Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977".

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Mother, Memories

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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