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I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
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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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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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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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
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