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To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

William Gibson

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.
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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
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I wanted to make room for antiheroes.
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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
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Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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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.
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Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
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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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I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
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