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William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong

Author William Gibson poses for a portrait at the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.Photo: Jason Redmond/Wired William Gibson, one of science fiction’s most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don’t possess some …

‘The true alchemists do not change lead into gold…

…they change the world into words.’ –William H. Gass

Ray Bradbury: ‘Be your own self. Love what YOU love’

‘When asked in 1991 to describe an obstacle he had faced during his lifetime and the subsequent effect of his overcoming it, author Ray Bradbury replied to schoolteacher William Stanhope with the following letter. His inspiring response, along wit…

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs…

…and developing our wings on the way down.” …Kurt Vonnegut (unsourced)

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William Gibson – The Art of Fiction

INTERVIEWER How do you begin a novel? GIBSON I have to write an opening sentence. I think with one exception I’ve never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. INTERVIEWER You won’t have planned beyond that one sentence? GIBSON No….

Richard Brautigan on Writing

Once again, Brautigan reminds us that one sentence can speak volumes: “I wrote poetry for seven years to learn how to write a sentence because I really wanted to write novels and I figured that I couldn’t write a novel until I could write a senten…

SPY Magazine – It’s Back…on Google Books

Smart. Funny. Fearless. “It’s pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York’s cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, bea…

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