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
men luxury white
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
technology thinking looks
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.
ideas imagination desire
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.
curiosity information mainstream
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
tabula-rasa midwest
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
book littles flip
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.
who-i-am occupation rewards
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.
jobs creativity insane
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
forever faces steps
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.
book reading thought-provoking
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
prayer reading lasts
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
states equal sentences
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
hands lays
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
years three why-not
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?