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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.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.
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