“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”
Source: Distrust That Particular Flavor
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Famous William Gibson Quotes
“The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.”
Source: A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness
Source: Burning Chrome
“Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”
Source: The Miracle Worker
Source: Count Zero
“Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.”
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.”
“Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.”
“I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.”
“I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.”
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.”
“I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.”
“I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.”
“I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.”
“I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.”
“The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.”
Source: Count Zero