Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual...

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about quiet, fiction, happiness, work, love

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.

Vladimir Nabokov
Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about quiet, fiction, happiness, work, love.
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov 1899 - 1977, american novelist

Was born on: 23 apr 1889.
Died on 02 jul 1977, at 88 years old.
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