“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — 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
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — 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
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — 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'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
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — 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
