"I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction."

-- William Gibson

#Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.”
“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
“I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
“Youâ€™re the most experienced investigator Iâ€™ve got whoâ€™s not tied up in something, and I canâ€™t ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.”
“I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”

Source : "Epistles". Book by Horace, 20 BC.

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