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
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.
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.
body use music-is
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.
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.
bigs big-picture seems
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
loneliness writing stranger
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
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?
realizing disorientation status-quo
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
principles composition repeats
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
waiting world stills
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
block writing years
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
technology goal invisible
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.