I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw… — 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
I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — 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
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — 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
“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