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Richard Powers Quotes: "When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder."

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.




Richard Powers Quotes: "Reading is the last act of secular prayer."

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.



Richard Powers Quotes: "All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours."

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.




Richard Powers Quotes: "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."

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.



Richard Powers Quotes: "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."

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.



Richard Powers Quotes: "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 Quotes: "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 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.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.



Richard Powers Quotes: "I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years."

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



Richard Powers Quotes: "The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it."

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected."

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.




Richard Powers Quotes: "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."

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.



Richard Powers Quotes: "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?"

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?



Richard Powers Quotes: "The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything."

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The Midwest is such a tabula rasa."

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases."

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Type a few lines of code, you create an organism."

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.



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 Quotes: "The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream."

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.



Richard Powers Quotes: "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 Quotes: "Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living."

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.



Richard Powers Quotes: "My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible."

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



Richard Powers Quotes: "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 Quotes: "In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block."

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers."

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.



Richard Powers Quotes: "I like to travel and connect."

I like to travel and connect.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Everything interests me."

Everything interests me.



Richard Powers Quotes: "For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities."

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



Richard Powers Quotes: "Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race."

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.



Richard Powers Quotes: "All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense."

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted."

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.



Richard Powers Quotes: "We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs."

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open."

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.



Richard Powers Quotes: "We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is."

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.



Richard Powers Quotes: "I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me."

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others."

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.



Richard Powers Quotes: "I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones."

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival"

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival



Richard Powers Quotes: "Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things."

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.



Richard Powers Quotes: "She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost."

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark."

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.



Richard Powers Quotes: "The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire."

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners."

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.



Richard Powers Quotes: "He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere"

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere



Richard Powers Quotes: "Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through."

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Creation is much in need of ordering."

Creation is much in need of ordering.



Richard Powers Quotes: "We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore."

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.



Richard Powers Quotes: "Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived."

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.