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Richard Powers Biography

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2018 Powers has published twelve novels, and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities.

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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.

Occupation, Pleasures, Rewards, Who I Am, Writer

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.

Bugs, Like, Long, Sits, Virus, Viruses

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

Code, Create, Lines, Type

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

Everything, Fit, Owned, Suitcases, Two

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

Build, Equal, Mental, Sentences, States

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.

Faces, Forever, Grows, Latest, Mastery, Wonder

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

Corrupted, Eye, Reading, Thing, Writing

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

Awful, Closing, Door, Doors, Possibility, University

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

Block, Felt, Novels, Writing, Years

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

Midwest, Rasa, Tabula, Tabula Rasa

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Book, Gas, Librarian, Occupation, Reading, Thought Provoking

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.

Desire, Driven, Human, Idea, Ideas, Imagination

Everything interests me.

Everything, Interest, Interests

I like to travel and connect.

Connect, Like, Travel

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Brain, Depend, Different, World

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.

Live, Racism, Self, Senses

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.

Cryptogram, Fall, Falls, Forecasts, Past, Simple

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

Bed, Dream, Lying, Write, Writing

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Act, Lasts, Prayer, Reading, Secular

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?

Alien, Chunk, Completely, Three, Why Not, Years

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