Quotes About William Gibson

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

Neuromancer' by William Gibson is a cyberpunk classic.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

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

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

If you're young, and have grown up only since the Internet has been dissolving the distinctions between past and present and old and new, the sci-fi writer and futurist William Gibson says, "I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.

Fables from before the Anaheiming.

You can't get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to 'em.

His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.

He sat on the bed for a long time, savoring the new thing, the treasure. Rage.

Whose apartment is this?" "Marisa's. I told you.

Ash and Conner are silent. Our three locals have their phones out and seem to be catching up on the news." "How is the news?" "They strike me as gravely concerned, but not speechless with horror.

I'm afraid I don't know her," he said, with the slight wince that came when you asked him about music that had come out since his own release. This always made Chia feel sorry for him, which she knew was ridiculous.

but Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not

I spent the war in Lisbon, you know," Deane said, putting the gun down. "Lovely place, Lisbon.

And Willy Jude was amiable enough, but in about as content-free a way as possible.

But she still didn't get what the United States did either, in Wilf's world. He made it sound like the nation-state equivalent of Conner, minus the sense of humor, but she supposed that might not be so far off, even today.