Richard Powers Quotes - Page 2

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?

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

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.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

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

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

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like to travel and connect.

Everything interests me.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

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