“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures with their elaborate vocabularies, each distinctive, shaping each other, breeding birds, sinking carbon, purifying water, filtering poisons from… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share
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… — Richard Powers Copy Share
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share
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 Copy Share
