I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders… — 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 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
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
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by… — 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
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school… — 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
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — 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 started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — 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
