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I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

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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 past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
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Things aren't different. Things are things.
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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
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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.
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[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.
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Secrets...are the very root of cool.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.
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Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
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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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The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
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