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
school computer grad
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
reading writing eye
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
lines type code
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
two suitcases fit
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
way roles world
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
interest
Everything interests me.
long viruses bugs
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.
looks harder
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
reading past years
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
tabula-rasa midwest
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
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.
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.
curiosity information mainstream
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.