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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

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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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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

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

— Richard Powers

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

— Richard Powers

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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. ↗

— Richard Powers

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

— Richard Powers

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

— Richard Powers

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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

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The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. ↗

— Richard Powers

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