Quote

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

William Gibson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Way
Canadian
Looked
Cities
Television
American

More quotes by William Gibson

Image
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
William Gibson
Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
William Gibson
Image
Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
William Gibson
Image
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
William Gibson
Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
William Gibson
Image
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
William Gibson
Image
We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
William Gibson
Image
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
William Gibson
Image
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
Image
[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.
William Gibson
Image
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
Image
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
William Gibson
Image
We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.
William Gibson
Image
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
William Gibson
Image
If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.
William Gibson
Image
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson
Image
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
William Gibson
Image
I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, Whoah! What's that? that I have with Japanese popular culture.
William Gibson
Image
If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.
William Gibson
Image
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
William Gibson