Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — 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
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
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — 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
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — 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
“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all… — 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
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — 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
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped… — 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
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