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 Read Quote
I’m a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don’t really feel qualified. William Gibson Read Quote
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won’t be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can’t even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school. William Gibson Read Quote
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to – the material demands it. William Gibson Read Quote
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we’ve been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We’ve been working on it without really knowing it. William Gibson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. William Gibson Read Quote
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that’s becoming quite a big job. William Gibson Read Quote
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. William Gibson Read Quote
