Richard Powers Quotes

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Richard Powers

Men, Race, White

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Richard Powers

Prayer, Last, Reading

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Richard Powers

Live, Human, Thought

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
Richard Powers

Time, Nothing, Human

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
Richard Powers

Brain, Different, Sense

Everything interests me.
Richard Powers

Everything, Interests

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
Richard Powers

After, Door, University

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Richard Powers

Mind, Lose, Arguing

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Richard Powers

Past, Remember, Keep

I like to travel and connect.
Richard Powers

Travel, Connect

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
Richard Powers

Science, Everything, Big

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.
Richard Powers

Life, Good, Science

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
Richard Powers

Work, Age, Time

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
Richard Powers

Big, Between, Books

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
Richard Powers

Design, Try, Another

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers

Time, Great, Writer

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?
Richard Powers

Yourself, Why, Three

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Richard Powers

Writing, Felt, Writer

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
Richard Powers

Dream, Write, Space

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
Richard Powers

Technology, Goal, Point

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
Richard Powers

Someone, Place, Liked

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers

School, Before, Living

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
Richard Powers

Science, Control, Face

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Richard Powers

Curiosity, Novel, Mainstream

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
Richard Powers

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Nationality: American

Born: June 18, 1957

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