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Richard Powers
Profession : Novelist
Birth : June 18, 1957
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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
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Richard Powers
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
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
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
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Richard Powers
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
Richard Powers
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
Richard Powers
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
Richard Powers
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
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
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
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers
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
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Richard Powers
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers
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
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Richard Powers
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Richard Powers
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
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