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