Vladimir Nabokov Quote

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.


Strong Opinions (1973)


A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.