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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

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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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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
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I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.
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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
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Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
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Some people dote on contemplating disasters.
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
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I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.
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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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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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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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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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Cyberspace is everting. It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
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The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.
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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
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