Quotes from Richard Powers

I like to travel and connect.

Everything interests me.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.