Richard Power famous quotes

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
-- Richard Power

#Technology #People #Truck

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,
-- Richard Power

#Writing #Novel #Novel Writing

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.