“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”

—  William Gibson

Interview in Paris Review Summer 2011 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

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