344 Quotes by Richard Powers

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

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.

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

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

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

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

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.

Trees know when we are close by. The chemistry of their roots and the perfumes of their leaves pump out change when we’re near... when you feel good after a walk in the woods, it may be that certain species are bribing you.

There’s joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be had from hearing the darkest tune and discovering you’re equal to it.