I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. — 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
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
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
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
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
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — 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 can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. — 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
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
I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
