The future is already here – New Quote I Love

A new addition to my collection of Quotes I Love. I can’t believe I am just adding this Gibson quote now after quoting it many times before!

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson

William Gibson says …

William Gibson’s non-fiction “Distrust That Particular Flavor” came out in Jan 2012. There some of the snappy one-liners from the book quoting this Calgary Herald article “William Gibson offers insights from the floating world”

“[...] he describes Singapore as “relentlessly G-rated,” the product that would have resulted “if IBM had ever bothered to actually possess a physical country. [...]

[Japan] is “the global imagination’s default setting for the future. [...]

In Modern Boys, Gibson writes that “London is somehow the best place from which to observe Tokyo, perhaps because the British appreciation of things Japanese is the most entertaining. There is a certain tradition of ‘Orientalia,’ of faux Oriental that has

William Gibson, The Art of Fiction – the Paris Review

Here is an excerpt from William Gibson, The Art of Fiction – Interviewed by David Wallace-Wells – the Paris Review. [HT BB]

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“INTERVIEWER

Do you revise?

GIBSON

Every day, when I sit down with the manuscript, I start at page one and go through the whole thing, revising freely.

INTERVIEWER

You revise the whole manuscript every day?

GIBSON

I do, though that might consist of only a few small changes. I’ve done that since my earliest attempts at short stories. It would be really frustrating for me not to be able to do that. I would feel as though I were flying blind.

It takes a few days – New Quotes I Love

Here are a few new “Quotes I Love” entries.

“It takes a few days to get my head around how much I like a film, if I really like it a lot, and longer to start to figure out why.” - William Gibson in this tweet

“When you love a film, as when you love a person, why isn’t necessarily that meaningful.” – [via tweet]

“The why’s of disliking something are easier to find, and make for quicker, juicier copy.” - [via tweet]

“Michael Mann’s theory: We only begin to really experience the film as we leave the theatre, in memory. And *backward*. I agree.” – [via tweet]