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. Read full biography of Richard Powers →
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... →
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Everything interests me.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
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.