Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Passion, Butterfly, Men

  "Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2016.

• Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Taken, Heart

• There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  School, Literature, Talent

• Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Stories

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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 his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Running, Writing, Boys

  Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)

• To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Literature, Motto, Following

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Fiction

  "Lectures on Literature".

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