All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — 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 assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a… — 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
I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making… — 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
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
'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 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
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
“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
![“I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd4/william-gibson-642_beautiful_i-loved-the-limey-movie-it-s-so-violent_1628933.jpg)
