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.


Speak, Memory: A Memoir (ed. 1951)

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...

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...

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...

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...