#nov

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #big #epic #future #going

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#certain #consumer #industry #innovation #internet

The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#broadband #china #companies #country #e-commerce

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

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

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

— Richard Powers

#block #felt #had #i #like

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

— Richard Powers

#curiosity #information #mainstream #novel #should

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#backward #companies #economic #economic growth #everything

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#books #fellow #finds #his #i

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#deplorable #fashion #fragile #grace #had