William Gibson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

• You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.

  William Gibson

  Sex, Book, Pda

• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

• A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

  William Gibson

  Book, Subconscious, Reader

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.34, Penguin

• I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

  William Gibson

  Book, Thinking, Changed

• I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!

  William Gibson

  Book, Space, Humanity

  Source: craphound.com

• I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

  William Gibson

  Brother, Book, Reality

• I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

  William Gibson

  Book, Space, People

  Source: craphound.com

• My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

• The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

  William Gibson

  Distance, Book, Cutting

• 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.

  William Gibson

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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