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Explore our hand-picked selection of 231 inspiring quotes by William Gibson.

About William Gibson

  • Born: March 17, 1948
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • I had a lot of issues with the genre, and i probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. i was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and i didn't have a long-term plan. but i think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what i suppose you could say is my own genre. if people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.
    Attitude Book Thinking
    Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. if i'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. in fact, when i catch myself doing that, i try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
    Character Giving Decision
    I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but i like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that i found when i first found science fiction.
    Thinking Degrees Fiction
    I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. i don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. we get these things, i think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.
    Thinking Perception Television
    If i meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that i'm going to get much closer to them. i don't understand them. it doesn't matter where they're from, i just don't get it. i'm a multi-national kind of guy.
    Guy Matter Kind
    We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. we almost never do. they just emerge, dragged forth by adam smith's invisible hand. then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.
    Technology Hands Invisible Hand
    Television has - particularly at the hbo level in the united states - become a completely new genre. something like deadwood or the wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. it's like a new way of telling stories.
    Hbo Wire Television
    The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. i imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. as for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. science fiction was where i'm from, but on the way to now, i went through a lot of other territory, and i wasn't really that culturally conventional an sf writer when i started.
    People Way Culture
    I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
    Long Prejudice Three
    [i've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the radiant being around whom all this is revolving. it's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. spooky. it's a spooky and interesting thing.
    Religious Artist Rocks
    It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
    Statistics Matter Ifs
    As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, i necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. i roam up and down it in a kind of special way because i roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
    Technology Special Fiction
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