Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#more #nothing #philistine #than #vulgarity

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#hoot #short #walk

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

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

#home #like #more #mortals #novelist

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

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

#chances #characters #gifted #greater #mind