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 don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. — 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
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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
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
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'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
“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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
“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
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 don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to… — 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
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
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — 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
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's… — 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
“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
