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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Internet
Technology
Time
Cyberpunk
Waste

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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.
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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.
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We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
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Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
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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 obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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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. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
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Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.
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I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
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I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
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Things aren't different. Things are things.
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What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
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