I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
William GibsonYou must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
William GibsonI think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
William Gibson[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.
William GibsonI loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.
William Gibson