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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

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly. — 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

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson

Factual accounts of premeditated violence in the global fashion industry. — William Gibson

Case gasped as his internal organs were pulled into a different configuration. — 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

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. — 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

After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over. — William Gibson

Media'?" "I guess so." "It was an artifact of relatively low connectivity. — William Gibson

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior. — William Gibson

Stone killer, said Carlos, like that might be his favorite flavor of pie. — 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

It's like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it. — 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

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug. — William Gibson

I had no idea that no one else would do it. — William Gibson

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) — 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

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

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. — William Gibson

A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil. — William Gibson

The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. — 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

The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters. — William Gibson

The rain was falling steadily now, but she felt as though she were somehow in collusion with it; it lent the day something conspiratorial, — William Gibson