Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!
Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.
I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."
[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.