Richard Powers
Richard Powers
Richard Powersis an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
block writing years
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
dream lying writing
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
technology goal invisible
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
school computer grad
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
age digital impossible
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
flower writing design
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.
doors awful possibility
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
brain world way
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
mind arguing bother
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
body use music-is
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.
loneliness writing stranger
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
waiting world stills
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
principles composition repeats
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
bigs big-picture seems
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.