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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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South Carolina
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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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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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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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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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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It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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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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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
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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 think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
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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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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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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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A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8 collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.
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If someone comes in and says, What are you doing, if I'm honest, the answer is, I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why.
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