Richard Powers Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I like to travel and connect.”

“Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.”

“The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.”

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

“I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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