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

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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
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Cyberpunk
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
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I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
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It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.
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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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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
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When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.
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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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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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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.
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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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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
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Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
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My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me
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The 'Net is a waste of time.
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