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 More Quotes by William Gibson More Quotes From William Gibson I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. William Gibson codeburiedlayers I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. William Gibson writtenthinking I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords. William Gibson rememberpeople I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. William Gibson changedbookthinking You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy. William Gibson vancouverspeakyears Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline. William Gibson vaselinecomputingspread When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back. William Gibson japancountryyears I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. William Gibson importantfictionthinking I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. William Gibson novelistswritingfiction He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. William Gibson knotsducksfaces Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there. William Gibson would-beamericapeople It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat. William Gibson neataccountscurrency 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 spacebookpeople 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 cuffsgenerationsdog I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion. William Gibson fashionbeautifulmen When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America. William Gibson rockswritingamerica "Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear. William Gibson militarylongmean We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it. William Gibson massagemade I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things. William Gibson collectorsfinancecurves I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional. William Gibson feel-goodwantthinking
