Quote

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Eyes
Soft
Eye
Directly
Money
Certainty
Mammalian
Human
Instant
Cyberpunk
Humans
Blue
Remotely
Even
Longer
Exceedingly
Knew
Instinctive
Rich
Stared

More quotes by William Gibson

Image
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson
Image
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 with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
William Gibson
Image
I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
William Gibson
Image
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
William Gibson
Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.
William Gibson
Image
If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.
William Gibson
Image
We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
William Gibson
Image
If someone comes in and says, What are you doing, if I'm honest, the answer is, I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why.
William Gibson
Image
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
William Gibson
Image
We see in order to move we move in order to see.
William Gibson
Image
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
William Gibson
Image
I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
William Gibson
Image
A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8 collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.
William Gibson
Image
I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.
William Gibson
Image
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
William Gibson
Image
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.
William Gibson
Image
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 it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
William Gibson
Image
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
William Gibson
Image
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
William Gibson
Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
William Gibson