Author: Richard Powers

Quotes

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

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

- Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

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

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

- Richard Powers

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

- Richard Powers

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

- Richard Powers

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.

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

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