To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths.… — 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
Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have… — 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
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
Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just… — 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
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — 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
One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having… — 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
