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William Gibson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 17, 1948

Topics

Future People Present Enough Write

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

Great Child Birds Story Furniture

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

Love Day Calm Doing Summer Go

An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.

Life Black Thought End Star Hole

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

Experience I Am Learn I Can Asking

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Man Kind Own Steps Only Trap

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

True Experiences Own Your Stuff

The mind is a muscle.

I took my job for Nickelodeon very seriously, and back then, it wasn't certainly as big of a network as it is now, culturally, and people my age didn't know much about it. But I loved my time there. I really put everything I had into doing 'Guts,' and it actually taught me a lot about how to work really hard.

Work Age Time Job People Me

All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.

Different Approach Different Ways

I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.

Amazing Want Star Would Wars

For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

Love History Focus Training College

I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.

Johnny Van Zant

Work Kind Over Sit Get Different

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