I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to… — 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
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we… — 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
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — 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
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — 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
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't… — 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
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