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
We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“She’s spoken with Parkaboy twice before, and both times it’s been odd, in the way that initial telephone conversations with people you’ve… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.… — 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
“At another time she asked,'what is a soul?' ' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my… — 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
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — 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
“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
![“At another time she asked,'what is a soul?' ' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I write what my soul thinks,'she said, 'then it will be visible, and the words will be its body.” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/238/william-gibson-642_anne-sullivan_at-another-time-she-asked-what-is-a-soul_2893032.jpg)
![“In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind…” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60c/william-gibson-642_1960s_in-effect-i-grew-up-in-a-sort-of-timewar_2191625.jpg)
