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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

William Gibson

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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I don't think about the real future very much.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
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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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I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.
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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.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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Cyberspace is everting. It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
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I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.
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