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William Gibson Quotes

American - Writer | March 17, 1948 -

I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.

Work Truth Think Internet You Find

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

Home Beautiful Book You Dream Copy

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

Time People Cool Think Early Way

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

Myself Job Thought Possible See

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Life Good Live My Life Living Much

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

Future Job I Am Humanity Write Big

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

Writing Start Direction Nothing Idea

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Writing Short Fiction Started Some

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.

Success Art Shoes Myself People You

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

Dress People Design Attention More

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Writing More Been Autism Interested

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

Science Lazy Science Fiction Write

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