Vladimir Nabokov Quote

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and nature. Every writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature.


Good Readers and Good Writers, 1948


To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and nature. Every writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature.

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and nature. Every writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature.

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and nature. Every writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature.

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and nature. Every writer is a great deceiver, but so is that arch-cheat Nature.