“I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated wit...” — William Gibson Quote

“I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.”

“When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.”

“For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.”

“I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.”

“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”

“I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.”

“I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.”

“When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.”

“I've always loved 'Wicked.' It's one of my little obsessions.”

“I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.”

“Obsessions turn people off.”

“An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.”