Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

I like to travel and connect.

- Richard Powers

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

- Richard Powers

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

- Richard Powers

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

- Richard Powers

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

- Richard Powers

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

- Richard Powers

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

- Richard Powers

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

- Richard Powers

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

- Richard Powers