Vladimir Nabokov Quotes about Character

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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Vladimir Nabokov

Jobs, Writing, Character

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Vladimir Nabokov

Character, Writing, Mind

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov

Character, Chekhov, Emphasis

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Vladimir Nabokov

Character, Past, World

Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

Vladimir Nabokov

Character, Fire, Doors

Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”