
More on Nabokov’s immigration to America here.
Official website of the author
More on Nabokov’s immigration to America here.
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
I can quite understand people wanting to know my writings, but I cannot sympathise with anybody wanting to know me.
Vladimir Nabokov, who “despised the idea of the author as celebrity” (via)
Life magazine has posted a trove of photographs of Vladimir Nabokov in 1959, a year after the first U.S. publication of Lolita. From the photo captions:
Nabokov wrote most of his novels on 3″ x 5″ notecards, keeping blank cards under his pillow for whenever inspiration struck. Seen here: a draft of Lolita.… Near the end of writing Lolita, Nabokov became dissatisfied with the work and tried to burn his notecards. Vera [his wife] stopped him.
Random bits found floating around on the web today: