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
I think that if the novels 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. – Richard Powers
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if youre lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. – Carrie-Anne Moss