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William Gibson Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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William Gibson

Birthname

AKA: William Gibson

Birthday: March 17, 1948

Educated At: University Of British Columbia

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Science Fiction Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”

— William Gibson, William Gibson riffs on writing and the future

Tagged: Writing, fiction, Novels, Reading, Advice, Writing Advice, Writers

“Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.”

— William Gibson

Tagged: Fascism, Politics, Dictatorship, Government

“[William Gibson] says “Every day, when I sit down with the manuscript, I start at page one and go through the whole thing, revising freely.”

What if we began each day by re-reading all the code we’d written for the story/feature/bug we were working on?”

— Marcus Blankenship, William Gibson, How the Godfather of Cyberpunk would write software

Tagged: cyberpunk, Writing Code

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