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I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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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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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
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I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
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