430 Quotes by William Gibson

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

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.

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.

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.