I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
William GibsonI think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
William GibsonIt's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William GibsonI'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
William GibsonI probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
William Gibson