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Richard Powers quotes

American Novelist June 18, 1957

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In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with. 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
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s... Richard Powers
Richard Powers quote: "I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital..."
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
Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected. 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
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
Richard Powers quote: "I like to travel and connect."
I like to travel and connect. 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
Richard Powers quote: "The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue,..."
The morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation. 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
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
Richard Powers quote: "My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I..."
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
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
Richard Powers quote: "The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes..."
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. Richard Powers

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