Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not… — William Gibson Copy Share
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share
“No," said Blackwell, "she won't, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will have established in our conversation. That's… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of them together… — William Gibson Copy Share
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the… — William Gibson Copy Share
“What happened to your arm?" she asked me one night in the Gentleman Loser, the three of us drinking at a small table in… — William Gibson Copy Share
“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a… — William Gibson Copy Share
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were… — William Gibson Copy Share
[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Andrea maintained that men like Alain lied so constantly, so passionately, that some basic distinction had been lost. They were artists in their own… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after… — William Gibson Copy Share
