All William Gibson Quotes
- Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. Age
- I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. Book
- I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. Becomes
- I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. Enough Like
- I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. Chandler
- I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. Briefly
- I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Capacity
- I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. Book
- I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords. All
- I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. Feel
- I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. From
- I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. Autism
- The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. Boundaries
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… Abstract
- A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream… Assimilate
- All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I… Afforded
- All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future… All
- As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change.… Affair
- Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make… Call
- 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to… All
- Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the… Final
- I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be… Anyone
- I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in… Began
- 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 writing.… Been
- I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce… Considerable