Quote

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

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
State
Process
Adjacent
Dream
Naps
States
Waking
Mind
Essential
Essentials
Dreams
Sleep

More quotes by William Gibson

Image
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
William Gibson
Image
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
William Gibson
Image
Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
William Gibson
Image
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.
William Gibson
Image
Some people dote on contemplating disasters.
William Gibson
Image
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
William Gibson
Image
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.
William Gibson
Image
The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
William Gibson
Image
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.
William Gibson
Image
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
William Gibson
Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.
William Gibson
Image
[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
William Gibson
Image
His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
William Gibson
Image
I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
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
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
William Gibson
Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
William Gibson
Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
William Gibson
Image
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
William Gibson
Image
Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
William Gibson