“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Are you - are you sad?" - No. "But your - your songs are sad." - My songs are of time and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time.… — 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
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
“...I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Something he’d found and lost so many times. It belonged, he knew – he remembered – as she pulled him down, to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Fox was quick to see how we could use you, but not sharp enough to credit you with ambition. But then he… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public… — 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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