William Gibson Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.”

“The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.”

“Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.”

“I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.”

“The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!”

“I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.”

“I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.”

“I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.”

“I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.”