Life Quotes

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

William E. Geist

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis

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 of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

William Gibson

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

William Gibson

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

William Gibson

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

William Gibson

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometim...

William Gibson

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

William Gibson

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

William Gibson

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

William Gibson

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. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the...

William Gibson

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 first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

William Gibson

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

William Gibson

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

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!

William Gibson

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

William Gibson