Quotes by William Gibson

About William Gibson:

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisioning cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

William Gibson

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

William Gibson

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

William Gibson

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

William Gibson

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

William Gibson

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Gibson

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

William Gibson

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

William Gibson

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 unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

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I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

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In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

William Gibson

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

William Gibson

Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's been carved on it. In "termite art" though, your slab h...

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Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of ...

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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

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The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

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I personally recall that world, which you can only imagine was preferable to this one,' she said. 'Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result....

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you can`t recycle wasted time

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Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Gibson
  • Descriptionan American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre
  • BornMarch 17, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksNeuromancer
  • AwardsNebula Award