American - Novelist | June 18, 1957 -
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Richard Powers
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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.
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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.
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We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
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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.
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The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
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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?
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
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Everything interests me.
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
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