I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.
Interpretation
The quote reflects an interest in taking ordinary objects and giving them new, unexpected purposes.
William Gibson's quote expresses a fascination with creatively transforming commonplace items into something intriguing and new. This 'spooky repurposing' suggests a blend of innovation and eeriness, emphasizing how familiar objects can take on fresh meanings when viewed from a different perspective.
In practice
In a speech about sustainability, you could use this quote to highlight innovative reuse of materials.
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
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