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• The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

  Richard Powers

  Jobs, Creativity, Insane

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Fascination, Littles

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• The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

  Richard Powers

  Tabula Rasa, Midwest

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• Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

  Richard Powers

  Two, Suitcases, Fit

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• The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

  Richard Powers

  Principles, Composition, Repeats

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

  Richard Powers

  Age, Digital, Impossible

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• 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

  Doors, Awful, Possibility

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

  Richard Powers

  Lines, Type, Code

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• All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

  Richard Powers

  Brain, Different, World

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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

  School, Computer, Grad

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

  Richard Powers

  Technology, Goal, Invisible

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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

  Dream, Lying, Writing

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

  Richard Powers

  Block, Writing, Years

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• I like to travel and connect.

  Richard Powers

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• Everything interests me.

  Richard Powers

  Interest

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• The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

  Richard Powers

  Loneliness, Writing, Stranger

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• Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

  Richard Powers

  Men, Race, White Man

  Richard Powers (2004). “The Time of Our Singing: A Novel”, p.304, Macmillan

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

  Richard Powers

  Curiosity, Information, Mainstream

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