William Gibson Quotes - Page 8

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• The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

  William Gibson

  Down And, Transparency, Glasnost

  Source: craphound.com

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• I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.

  William Gibson

  Unique, Thinking, Trying

  Source: craphound.com

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• A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

  William Gibson

  Ties, Retail, Toronto

  Source: craphound.com

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• What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

  William Gibson

  Style, Toronto, Too Much

  Source: craphound.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

  William Gibson

  Fabulous, Favorites Things, Novelty

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

  William Gibson

  Brilliant

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• All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

  William Gibson

  Kids, Opportunity, Class

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

  William Gibson

  New York, Lag, Towns

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

  William Gibson

  Giving, Trying, Architecture

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• We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

  William Gibson

  Voice, Tongue, Babel

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.96, Penguin

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• The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

  William Gibson

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• I don't think about the real future very much.

  William Gibson

  Real, Thinking

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• To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Unbearable, Guilty

  Source: craphound.com

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• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Novelists

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Samurai, Way

  Source: craphound.com

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• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  William Gibson

  America, Culture, Violence

  Source: craphound.com

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• A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.

  William Gibson

  Growing Up, Culture, Aberration

  Source: craphound.com

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• I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Years, Southern

  Interview With Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

  William Gibson

  Moments, Novel, Imaginary

  "William Gibson: beyond cyberspace" by Thomas Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• 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

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• I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

  William Gibson

  Dog, Generations, Cuffs

  Source: craphound.com

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• The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

  William Gibson

  Reading, Europe, Space

  Source: craphound.com

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• All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

  William Gibson

  Taken, Sleep, Cutting

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.9, Penguin

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