"The future is there... looking back at us.……" — William Gibson
"The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think…
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into…
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and…
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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and…
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More Fiction Quotes
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one of 2,465 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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