Richard Powers

“The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.”

“I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.”

“What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.”

“We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.”

“He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere”

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