A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. -
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. -
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. -
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
- Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.