The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

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.

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.