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Richard Powers
Richard Powers
American Novelist
Born: Jun 18, 1957
Doing Everything Me Reading World You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. Richard Powers
Luxury Men White Only Race Ignoring
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. Richard Powers
Prayer Secular Reading Act Last
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
Time Silence You Book Reading Nothing Considered Silent Moratorium Voices Outside Head Retreat Hours Still Private Hearing Pathological Human Human Activity Unfolding Form Your Activity Last
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
Science Face Control Our Latest About Something Step Mastery Reverence Perpetual Cultivating Condition Wonder Forever Than Richer Theory Grows
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
Life Good Technology Science Live Think Ourselves Must Find Take Facts Look Most Contemporary Contemporary Life How Task Where Central Hard Hard Look Describe Novel Novelist Now
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
Time Great Pleasures Out Writer Like Occupation Am Doing Rewards Who Each Each Time Reinvent
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
Big Side Books Say Systems Would Components Between Little Flip Many Fascination
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. Richard Powers
Midwest
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. Richard Powers
Eyes Writing Reading Market Market Economy Corrupted Economy Makes Suspect Thing
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. Richard Powers
You Science Picture Big Everything Seems Like Because Get Big Picture Where Place Really Connects
I like to travel and connect. Richard Powers
Travel Like Connect
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
Work Technology Way Determine Tends Never Itself Should Choose
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
Politics Character Book Emotions World Binary Feeling Feelings About Idea Ideas False Intense Just Hold Either Expression
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. Richard Powers
Would Someone Only Liked Still Where Vicariously Anything Place Who
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism. Richard Powers
You Few Type Lines Create Organism Code
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases. Richard Powers
Suitcases Everything Could Until Fit Owned Two

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