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Richard Powers quotes about world

American Novelist June 18, 1957

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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
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
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
On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (24) Richard Powers
Richard Powers quote: "All the different ways we know the world all come from the..."
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
Richard Powers quote: "We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the..."
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. Richard Powers

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