Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977
Birthday: April 22
Death: July 2
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
source: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies
topic: Book, Writing, Ideas, Elegant Solutions, Exploits