All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
William GibsonTo present a whole world that doesnโt exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend weโre polymaths. Thatโs just the act of all good writing.
William GibsonI'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
William GibsonPart of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
William GibsonI like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.
William Gibson