"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist." ― Vladimir Nabokov Topic(s): Imagination More From Vladimir Nabokov "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." "Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words." "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." More In Imagination "It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care."― Paul Farmer "I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination."― Carlos Fuentes "I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination."― Berkeley Breathed