Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
