W.Gibson Interview

[David Morris]

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

"But I don’t think that writers are very reliable witnesses when it
comes to influences, because if one of your sources seems woefully
unhip you are not going to cite it. When I was just starting out
people would say, Well, who are your influences? And I would say,
William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Thomas Pynchon. Those are true, to
some extent, but I would never have said Len Deighton, and I suspect I
actually learned more for my basic craft reading Deighton’s early spy
novels than I did from Burroughs or Ballard or Pynchon."