Richard Powers Quotes

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Richard Powers

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 18, 1957

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

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Richard Powers

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Richard Powers

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

Everything interests me.

Richard Powers

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

Richard Powers

I like to travel and connect.

Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Richard Powers

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Richard Powers

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

Richard Powers

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

Richard Powers

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Richard Powers