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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

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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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The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.
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I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
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The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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The street has its own use for things.
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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 future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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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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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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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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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
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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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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
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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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Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.
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I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
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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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The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
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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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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.
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