I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced.… — 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
I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word… — 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
'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers… — 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 don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with… — 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 ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — 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
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the… — 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
I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I… — 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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