Richard Powers Quotes

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

  Richard Powers

  States, Equal, Sentences

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• Bibliotecario es una ocupación de servicio. Empleado de gasolinera de la mente.

  Richard Powers

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

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• I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

  Richard Powers

  Mind, Arguing, Bother

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• 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.

  Richard Powers

  Forever, Mastery, Faces

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• Cuando estés seguro de lo que miras, busca más.

  Richard Powers

  Looks, Harder

  Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

  Richard Powers

  Prayer, Reading, Lasts

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

  Richard Powers

  Roles, World, Way

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• 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

  Flower, Writing, Design

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• Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

  Richard Powers

  Waiting, World, Stills

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

  Richard Powers

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

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• The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

  Richard Powers

  Use, Body, Music Is

  Richard Powers (2004). “The Time of Our Singing: A Novel”, p.536, Macmillan

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• Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

  Richard Powers

  Self, Evil, Refusal

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• 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.

  Richard Powers

  Technology, Thinking, Novelists

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• The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

  Richard Powers

  Reading, Writing, Eye

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

  Richard Powers

  Hands, Lays

  Richard Powers (2004). “Galatea 2.2: A Novel”, p.103, Macmillan

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• La idea de que un libro puede tratar sobre personajes y sentimientos, o sobre política e ideas, es un falso binario. Las ideas son una expresión de los sentimientos y las emociones intensas que tenemos sobre el mundo.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Character, Expression

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• Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

  Richard Powers

  Long, Viruses, Bugs

  Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

  Richard Powers

  Fall, Past, Simple

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• La web: otra desorientación total que se convierte en statu quo sin que nadie se dé cuenta.

  Richard Powers

  Realizing, Disorientation, Status Quo

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• I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

  Richard Powers

  Reading, Past, Years

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• 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

  Ideas, Imagination, Desire

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• We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

  Richard Powers

  Self, Racism, Senses

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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• I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

  Richard Powers

  Bigs, Big Picture, Seems

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• If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

  Richard Powers

  Years, Three, Why Not

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• I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

  Richard Powers

  Who I Am, Occupation, Rewards

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