| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41063 |
| QUOTATION: | Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vladimir Nabokov (18991977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Interview in Writers at Work, Fourth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1976). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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