Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov about Fiction

1 quote by Vladimir Nabokov about fiction

Vladimir Nabokov American novelist

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.

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