Richard Powers Writing Quotations

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

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

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