William Gibson Quotes

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I like sci-fi.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.