Quote by Richard Powers
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, o

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

Other quotes by Richard Powers

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

Category:
design
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

Category:
Technology
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Politics
category

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. – Van Morrison

Category:
Politics

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon. – David Frum

Category:
Politics

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! – Theresa May

Category:
Politics

War is the ultimate tool of politics. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Category:
Politics

Random Quotes

The Seder nights… tie me with the centuries before me. – Ludwig Frank (1874–1914), Aufsätze, Reden und Briefe, ausgewählt und ein

Category:
Passover

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleanora Duse

Category:
Nature

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. – H. P. Lovecraft

Category:
Fear

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. – Helen Clark

Category:
sad