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One Quotes by William Gibson
- Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
- Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
- I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself.…
- 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 thing - the…
- That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do…
- She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
- One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange…
- If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly…
- His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
- You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
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