Television Quotes by William Gibson

9 Television quotes by William Gibson

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For readers who love a quick cyber‑punk perspective on media, Gibson’s nine one‑liners give a taste of his futuristic skepticism. The brevity lets his sharp, tech‑savvy voice shine without overwhelming the page.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

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“Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art.” They walked on. “I think that already happened, back home,”

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I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the…

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Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or…

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I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features…

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Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still…

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I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far…

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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

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The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

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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…

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“What happened to your arm?" she asked me one night in the Gentleman Loser, the three of us drinking at a small table in…

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“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a…

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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were…

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[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew…

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“Andrea maintained that men like Alain lied so constantly, so passionately, that some basic distinction had been lost. They were artists in their own…

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“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after…

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