My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. Richard Powers Read Quote
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it’s not corrupted. Richard Powers Read Quote
The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. Richard Powers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. Richard Powers Read Quote
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously. Richard Powers Read Quote
