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I wanted to make room for antiheroes.
— William Gibson
Neighborhoods that mainly operated at night had a way of looking a lot worse in the morning.
— William Gibson
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
— William Gibson
But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
— William Gibson
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
— William Gibson
The future is there ... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
— William Gibson
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
— William Gibson
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
— William Gibson
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
— William Gibson
Is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.
— William Gibson
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
— William Gibson
To hire someone willing to undertake an unspecified task, likely involving violence.
— William Gibson
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
— William Gibson
It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.
— William Gibson
Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.
— William Gibson
I know Quine, by the way. Real asshole.
— William Gibson
stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for
— William Gibson
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.
— William Gibson
Fuck it. Just fuck it.
— William Gibson
It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
— William Gibson
Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward.
— William Gibson
The future is not google-able.
— William Gibson
The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
— William Gibson
It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.
— William Gibson
His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.
— William Gibson
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
— William Gibson
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Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson
Boy, I was daid.
— William Gibson
Lonny Zone stepped forward, tall and cadaverous, moving with the slow undersea grace of his addiction.
— William Gibson
No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was.
— William Gibson
The act of connection produces a fork in causality, the new branch causally unique. A stub, as we call them.
— William Gibson
Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said.
— William Gibson
You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go.
— William Gibson
He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay.
— William Gibson
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
— William Gibson
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
— William Gibson
The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores;
— William Gibson
William Gibson's novel Neuromancer,
— Jeffery Deaver
The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!
— William Gibson
Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.James: What is?
Annie: Giving up. — William Gibson
The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.
— William Gibson
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
— William Gibson
I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire.
— William Gibson
ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS
— William Gibson
How were they weird?" "Hoodoos. Thought the matrix was full of mambos 'n' shit. Wanna know something, Moll?" "What?" "They're right.
— William Gibson
He robbed a bank in Wichita.
— William Gibson
Hell of a world we live in, huh? ( ... ) But it could be worse, huh?""That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect. — William Gibson
I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.
— William Gibson
But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die.
— William Gibson
I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. - H. G. WELLS
— William Gibson
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
— William Gibson
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
— William Gibson
Damien is a friend.Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say. — William Gibson
poor Byron, whose car had been run over by an autopiloted eighteen-wheeler on Valentine's Day, about
— William Gibson
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
— William Gibson
He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.
— William Gibson
Voytek is here, to fuck penguin.
— William Gibson
I had no idea that no one else would do it.
— William Gibson
In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.
— William Gibson
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
— William Gibson
Something she'd gotten from Burton
— William Gibson
Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young.
— William Gibson
Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you.
— William Gibson
Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!
— William Gibson
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
— William Gibson
The street has its own use for things.
— William Gibson
Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.
— William Gibson
Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.
— William Gibson
A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.
— William Gibson
We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.
— William Gibson
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
— William Gibson
His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
— William Gibson
Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.
— William Gibson
The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence.
— William Gibson
A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self.
— William Gibson
The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
— William Gibson
Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle,
— William Gibson
Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding.
— William Gibson
Stormin'," he said, like he was glad to note the world outside continuing on any recognizable course at all, however drastic.
— William Gibson
subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic
— William Gibson
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
— William Gibson
The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.
— William Gibson
ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS
— William Gibson
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
— William Gibson
