Fiction Quotes by William Gibson
All Fiction quotes William Gibson’s page
Gibson’s prose pulses with neon and circuitry, and his commentary on fiction mirrors that energy. These twenty‑nine excerpts give a quick pulse check on his view that narrative is the ultimate interface between mind and machine.
![“In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind…” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60c/william-gibson-642_1960s_in-effect-i-grew-up-in-a-sort-of-timewar_2191625.jpg)
![“When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/913/william-gibson-642_critical_when-i-began-to-write-fiction-that-i-kne_1267055.jpg)
![“[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players…” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/837/william-gibson-642_coming-out_when-johnny-mnemonic-was-coming-out-and_68787.jpg)
