Vladimir nabokov

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

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

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

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

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

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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