W.Gibson Interview

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Great find, thanks for posting.  I've always thought of Gibson as the
Raymond Chandler/Dashiell Hammet of the Cyberpunk genre...which
presupposes a similarity of that genre to hardbolied fiction,
natch....while Neal Stephenson is the Mickey Spillane (or James
Ellroy?).  I like both but Gibson is a man playing chess among kids
who play checkers.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>