Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Jobs, Writing, Character

• The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Writing, Mind

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Fire, Doors

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

• I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Past, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

• My characters are galley slaves.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Slave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Chekhov, Emphasis

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

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