"A writer should have the precision of a……" — Vladimir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination… - Vladimir Nabokov

"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."

— Vladimir Nabokov

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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times…
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and…
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink…
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it…
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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